21. Surely he remembers that at Thebez a woman killed Abimelech son of Jerub Besheth when she threw the top part of a grinding stone down from the wall. So why did he go that close to the wall?’ If King David says something like that, tell him, ‘Your officer, Uriah the Hittite, also died.’”
22. The messenger went in and told David everything Joab told him to say.
23. The messenger told David, “The men of Ammon attacked us in the field. We fought them and chased them all the way to the city gate.
24. Then the men on the city wall shot arrows at your officers. Some of your officers were killed, including Uriah the Hittite.”
25. David said to the messenger, “Give this message to Joab: ‘Don’t be too upset about this. A sword can kill one person as well as the next. Make a stronger attack against Rabbah and you will win.’ Encourage Joab with these words.”
26. Bathsheba heard that her husband Uriah had died, so she mourned for him.
27. After her time of sadness, David sent servants to bring her to his house. She became David’s wife and gave birth to a son for David. But the Lord did not like what David had done.