2 Samuel 11:22

22 So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for.

2 Samuel 11:22 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 11:22

So the messenger went
From Joab, from the army before Rabbah:

and came;
to David in Jerusalem, a course of sixty four miles:

and showed David all that Joab had sent him for;
all the events of the war hitherto.

2 Samuel 11:22 In-Context

20 and if so be that the king's wrath arise and he say unto thee, `Why approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye fought? Knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?

21 Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? Why went ye nigh the wall?' -- then say thou, `Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.'"

22 So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for.

23 And the messenger said unto David, "Surely the men prevailed against us and came out unto us into the field, and we were upon them even unto the entrance of the gate.

24 And the shooters shot from the wall upon thy servants; and some of the king's servants are dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also."