2 Samuel 11:20-22

Contemporary English Version

²⁰he may get angry and ask, “Why did you go so near the city to fight? Didn't you know they would shoot arrows from the wall? ²¹^(A) Don't you know how Abimelech the son of Gideon^[a] was killed at Thebez? Didn't a woman kill him by dropping a large rock from the top of the city wall? Why did you go so close to the city walls?”

Then tell him, “One of your soldiers who was killed was Uriah the Hittite.”

²²The messenger went to David and reported everything Joab had told him.

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Footnotes

11.21 Gideon: The Hebrew text has Jerubbesheth, which stands for “Jerubbaal,” another name for Gideon. See Judges 6.32 and the note on “bosheth” at 2.8 (“besheth” means the same as “bosheth”).