2 Samuel 11:14-21

14So the next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and gave it to Uriah to deliver.

15The letter instructed Joab, “Station Uriah on the front lines where the battle is fiercest. Then pull back so that he will be killed.”

16So Joab assigned Uriah to a spot close to the city wall where he knew the enemy’s strongest men were fighting.

17And when the enemy soldiers came out of the city to fight, Uriah the Hittite was killed along with several other Israelite soldiers.

18Then Joab sent a battle report to David.

19He told his messenger, “Report all the news of the battle to the king.

20But he might get angry and ask, ‘Why did the troops go so close to the city? Didn’t they know there would be shooting from the walls?

21Wasn’t Abimelech son of Gideon killed at Thebez by a woman who threw a millstone down on him from the wall? Why would you get so close to the wall?’ Then tell him, ‘Uriah the Hittite was killed, too.’”