So the messenger went, and came and told David all that Joab had sent by him.
2 Samuel 11:22
Surrounding context
11:21 Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Was it not a woman who cast a piece of a millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you go near the wall?'--then you shall say, "Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also."'
11:22 So the messenger went, and came and told David all that Joab had sent by him.
11:23 And the messenger said to David, "Surely the men prevailed against us and came out to us in the field; then we drove them back as far as the entrance of the gate.