2 Samuel 11:19-21

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

¹⁹ And he charged the messenger, When you have finished reporting matters of the war to the king,

²⁰ Then if the king’s anger rises and he says to you, Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Did you not know they would shoot from the wall?

²¹ Who killed Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth (Gideon)? Did not a woman cast an upper millstone upon him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you go near the wall? Then say, Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.^(A)