2 Samuel 11:21-23
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
21 Who killed Abimelech, son of Jerubbaal? Was it not a woman who threw a millstone down on him from the wall above, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you go near the wall?’ Then you in turn are to say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.’”(A) 22 The messenger set out, and on his arrival he reported to David everything Joab had sent him to tell.[a] 23 He told David: “The men had the advantage over us and came out into the open against us, but we pushed them back to the entrance of the city gate.
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- 11:22–24 In these verses the Greek text has David, angry with Joab, repeat exactly the questions Joab had foreseen in vv. 20–21. In v. 24 of our oldest Greek text, the messenger specifies that about eighteen men were killed. The Greek is considerably longer than the transmitted Hebrew text, suggesting that the Hebrew may have lost some sentences.
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