2 Samuel 11:21-23

Good News Translation

^21 (A)Don't you remember how Abimelech son of Gideon was killed? It was at Thebez, where a woman threw a millstone down from the wall and killed him. Why, then, did you go so near the wall?’ If the king asks you this, tell him, ‘Your officer Uriah was also killed.’”

²² So the messenger went to David and told him what Joab had commanded him to say. ²³ He said, “Our enemies were stronger than we were and came out of the city to fight us in the open, but we drove them back to the city gate.