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2 Samuel 11:14

So in the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.

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2 Samuel 11:15

He had written in the letter the following: "Station Uriah on the front line of the fiercest battle and pull back from him, so that he may be struck and killed."

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2 Samuel 11:16

So it was as Joab kept watch on the city, that he stationed Uriah at the place where he knew there were valiant men.

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2 Samuel 11:17

And the men of the city went out and fought against Joab, and some of the people among David's servants fell; and Uriah the Hittite also died.

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2 Samuel 11:18

Then Joab sent a messenger and reported to David all the events of the war.

2 Samuel 11:19

He ordered the messenger, saying, "When you have finished telling all the events of the war to the king,

2 Samuel 11:20

then it shall be that if the king's wrath rises and he says to you, 'Why did you move against the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall?

2 Samuel 11:21

'Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Did a woman not throw an upper millstone on him from the wall so that he died at Thebez? Why did you move against the wall?'—then you shall say, 'Your servant Uriah the Hittite also died.'"

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