ECB(i)
16 And so be it, Yah Ab guards the city; and he gives Uri Yah to a place where he knows there are valiant men:
17 and the men of the city go and fight Yah Ab: and there fall of the people of the servants of David; and Uri Yah the Hethiy also dies.
18 And Yah Ab sends and tells David all the words concerning the war;
19 and misvahs the angel, saying, When you finish wording the words of the war to the sovereign,
20 and so be it, if the fury of the sovereign ascends, and he says to you, Why approached you so near the city to fight? Know you not that they shoot from the wall?
21 Who smote Abi Melech the son of Yerub Besheth? Cast not a woman a slice of an upper millstone on him from the wall, that he died in Tebes? Why approached you the wall? - then you say, Your servant Uri Yah the Hethiy also died.
22 And the angel goes and comes and tells David all Yah Ab sent him for:
23 and the angel says to David, Surely the men prevail mightily against us and go to us into the field; and we are on them even to the opening of the portal:
24 and the shooters shoot on your servants from off the wall; and some of the servants of the sovereign died and your servant Uri Yah the Hethiy also died.
25 Then David says to the angel, Say thus to Yah Ab, This word is not evil in your eyes; for thus the sword devours one: strengthen your warfare against the city and demolish it: and you strengthen him.