Who killed Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? Wasn’t it a woman who threw an upper millstone down on him from the wall at Thebez, so that he died? Why did you get so close to the wall?’ Then you are to say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead too.’”
In context
19and instructed the messenger, “When you have finished telling the king everything about the battle, 20the king’s anger may flare up, and he may ask you, ‘Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Didn’t you know they would shoot from the wall? 21Who killed Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? Wasn’t it a woman who threw an upper millstone down on him from the wall at Thebez, so that he died? Why did you get so close to the wall?’ Then you are to say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead too.’” 22The messenger set out, and when he arrived he told David everything Joab had sent him to say. 23The messenger said to David, “The men overpowered us and came out against us in the open, but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate.
