21. Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerub-bosheth, if not a woman who threw an upper millstone on him from atop the wall and he died at Thebez? Why did you go near the wall?’ Then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite also died.’ ”
22. Then the messenger left, and he came and told David all that Joab had sent him to say.
23. The messenger said to David, “Because the men overpowered us, the men came out to us in the field, but we forced them back to the entrance of the gate.
24. The archers shot at your servant from atop the wall, and some of the servants of the king died; your servant Uriah the Hittite also died.”
25. Then David said to the messenger, “Thus you shall say to Joab, ‘Do not feel badly about this matter; now one and then another the sword will devour. Intensify your attack on the city and overthrow it.’ ” And he encouraged him.
26. When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned over her husband.
27. When the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his household, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing which David had done was evil in the eyes of Yahweh.