2 Samuel 11:22
So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for.In other versions
So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for.
ASV
So the man went, and came to David, and gave him all the news which Joab had sent him to give; then David was angry with Joab and said, Why did you go so near the town for the fight? was it not certain that their archers would be on the wall? who put Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, to death? did not a woman send a great stone down on him from the wall, putting him to death at Thebez? why did you go so near the wall?
BBE
And the messenger went; and he came and told David all that Joab had sent him for.
DBY
So the messenger went, and came and shown David all that Joab had sent him for.
WEB
And the messenger goeth, and cometh in, and declareth to David all that with which Joab sent him,
YLT
So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for.
ENG
So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for.
WBT
So the messenger set out and reported to David all that Joab had sent him to say.
BSB
In context
20And if so be that the king's wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?
21Who 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.
22So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for.
23And 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 entering of the gate.
24And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and some of the king's servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
People in this verse
- David
- Joab