Holy Scripture
2 Samuel 11:18
A church father on this verse
“We have taken up the task of writing an apology for the present style of the prophet David, not because he needs this gift, who has excelled in such great merits and flourished in virtues, but because many people, reading the sequence of his deeds without considering the power of the Scriptures or the hidden mysteries…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
18And Joab sent, and reported to David all the events of the war, so as to tell them to the king.
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16And it came to pass while Joab was watching against the city, that he set Uriah in a place where he knew that valiant men were.
17And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and some of the people of the servants of David fell, and Uriah the Hittite died also.
— 2 Samuel 11:18 —
19And he charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast finished reporting all the events of the war to the king,
20then it shall come to pass if the anger of the king shall arise, and he shall say to thee, Why did ye draw nigh to the city to fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from off the wall?