CLV(i)
14 And it comes to pass in the morning, that David writes a letter unto Joab, and sends by the hand of Uriah;"
15 and he writes in the letter, saying, `Place you Uriah over-against the front of the severest battle, and you have turned back from after him, and he has been smitten, and has died..
16 And it comes to pass in Joab's watching of the city, that he appoints Uriah unto the place where he knew that valiant men [are];"
17 and the men of the city go out and fight with Joab, and there fall [some] of the people, of the servants of David; and there dies also Uriah the Hittite.
18 And Joab sends and declares to David all the matters of the war,
19 and commands the messenger, saying, `At your finishing all the matters of the war to speak unto the king,
20 then, it has been, if the king's fury ascend, and he has said to you, Wherefore did you draw nigh unto the city to fight? did you not know that they shoot from off the wall?
21 Who smote Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast on him a piece of a rider from the wall, and he dies in Thebez? why drew you nigh unto the wall? that you have said, Also your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead..
22 And the messenger goes, and comes in, and declares to David all that with which Joab sent him,
23 and the messenger said unto David, `Surely the men have been mighty against us, and come out unto us into the field, and we are upon them unto the opening of the gate,
24 and those shooting shoot at your servants from off the wall, and [some] of the servants of the king are dead, and also, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.