2 Samuel 11:22-26
2 Samuel 11:22
So the messenger departed and came and reported to David everything that Joab had sent him to tell.
2 Samuel 11:23
The messenger said to David, “The men prevailed against us and came out against us in the field, but we pressed them as far as the entrance of the gate.
2 Samuel 11:24
Also, the archers shot at your servants from the wall; so some of the king’s servants died, and your servant Uriah the Hittite also died.”
2 Samuel 11:25
Then David said to the messenger, “This is what you shall say to Joab: ‘Do not let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another; fight with determination against the city and overthrow it’; and thereby encourage him.”
2 Samuel 11:26
Now when Uriah’s wife heard that her husband Uriah was dead, she mourned for her husband.