14 So in the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by Uriah’s hand.
15 In the letter he wrote, “Put Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle and withdraw from him so that he may be struck down and die.”
16 So it came to pass, when Joab was besieging the city, that he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were.
17 Then the men of the city came out and attacked Joab, and some of the troops of David’s officers fell; and Uriah the Hittite also died.
18 When Joab sent and reported to David all the events of the war,
19 he charged the messenger saying, “When you finish reporting all the events of the war to the king,
20 if it happens that the king’s wrath flares up and he says to you, ‘Why did you come so close to the city to fight? Didn’t you know that they would shoot from the wall?