2 Samuel 11:20-22

New English Translation

²⁰ if the king becomes angry and asks you, ‘Why did you go so close to the city to fight? Didn’t you realize they would shoot from the wall? ²¹ Who struck down Abimelech the son of Jerub-Besheth? Didn’t a woman throw an upper millstone^[a] down on him from the wall so that he died in Thebez? Why did you go so close to the wall?’ just say to him, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.’”

²² So the messenger departed. When he arrived, he informed David of all the news that Joab had sent with him.