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2 Samuel 11:20

“If the king’s anger flares, he may ask you, ‘Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Did you not realize they would shoot from atop the wall?”
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18Joab sent to David a full account of the battle

19And instructed the messenger, “When you have finished giving the king a full account of the battle,

20If the king’s anger flares, he may ask you, ‘Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Did you not realize they would shoot from atop the wall?

21Who struck Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? Was it not a woman who dropped an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?’ If he asks you this, then you are to say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well.’”

22So the messenger set out and reported to David all that Joab had sent him to say.

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