16. So it was, while Joab besieged the city, that he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew there were valiant men.
17. Then the men of the city came out and fought with Joab. And some of the people of the servants of David fell; and Uriah the Hittite died also.
18. Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war,
19. and charged the messenger, saying, “When you have finished telling the matters of the war to the king,
20. if it happens that the king’s wrath rises, and he says to you: ‘Why did you approach so near to the city when you fought? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall?