14. And it happened in the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab, and he sent it by the hand of Uriah.
15. He had written in the letter, “Put Uriah in the front, in the face of the fiercest fighting, then draw back from behind him so that he may be struck down and die.”
16. When Joab was besieging the city, he put Uriah toward the place which he knew there were valiant warriors.
17. The men of the city came out and fought with Joab. Some from the army from the servants of David fell; Uriah the Hittite also died.
18. Joab sent and told David all of the news of the battle.
19. He instructed the messenger, saying, “As you are finishing to speak all the news of the battle to the king,