So Joab blew the trumpet, and all the men stopped and pursued Israel no more, nor did they fight anymore.

And when the Ammonites saw that the Syrians fled, they likewise fled before Abishai and entered the city. Then Joab returned from fighting against the Ammonites and came to Jerusalem.

In the letter he wrote, “Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, that he may be struck down, and die.”

Then Joab sent and told David all the news about the fighting.

And he instructed the messenger, “When you have finished telling all the news about the fighting to the king,

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?