LITV(i)
14 And it happened in the morning David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
15 And he wrote in the letter, saying, Place Uriah in the front of the strongest fighting, and withdraw from him, that he may be struck, and die.
16 And it happened, as Joab watched the city, that he sent Uriah to the place where he knew would be mighty men.
17 And the men of the city went out and fought with Joab, and some of the people fell of David's servants. And Uriah the Hittite also died.
18 And Joab sent and told David all the matters of the war.
19 And he commanded the messenger, saying, As you finish all the matters of the war, speaking to the king,
20 then it shall be, if the king's fury rises, and he says to you, Why did you draw near to the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from off the wall?
21 Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerub-besheth? Did not a woman throw a piece of a riding millstone on him from the wall, and he died in Thebez? Why did you draw near to the wall? Then you shall say, Also your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.
22 And the messenger went and came and told David all that which Joab had sent him to tell,
23 and the messenger said to David, Surely the men have been mighty against us, and came out to us into the field. And we were on them to the entrance of the gate.
24 And those shooting shot 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.