2 Samuel 11:18-20

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁸ Then Joab sent and told David all the news about the fighting; ¹⁹ and he instructed the messenger, ‘When you have finished telling the king all the news about the fighting, ²⁰ then, if the king’s anger rises, and if he says to you, “Why did you go so near the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall?