2 Samuel 11:22

22 The messenger started out for Jerusalem. When he arrived there, he told David everything Joab had sent him to say.

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 his anger might explode. He might ask you, 'Why did you go so close to the city to fight against it? Didn't you know that the enemy soldiers would shoot arrows down from the wall?

21 Don't you remember how Abimelech, the son of Jerub-Besheth, was killed? A woman dropped a large millstone on him from the wall. That's how he died in Thebez. So why did you go so close to the wall?' If the king asks you that, tell him, 'Your servant Uriah, the Hittite, is also dead.' "

22 The messenger started out for Jerusalem. When he arrived there, he told David everything Joab had sent him to say.

23 The messenger said to David, "The men who were in the city were more powerful than we were. They came out to fight against us in the open. But we drove them back to the entrance of the city gate.

24 Then those who were armed with bows shot arrows at us from the wall. Some of your special troops were killed. Your servant Uriah, the Hittite, is also dead."