2 Samuel 11:18-20

Revised Standard Version

¹⁸ Then Jo′ab sent and told David all the news about the fighting; ¹⁹ and he instructed the messenger, “When you have finished telling all the news about the fighting to the king, ²⁰ then, if the king’s anger rises, and if he says to you, ‘Why did you go so near the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall?