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Abimelech’s Death at Thebez Recalled
Joab carefully prepares a messenger for David, anticipating criticism over the dangerous approach to the wall. The report ends with the information David most wanted: Uriah is dead.
Second Samuel 11:21 explicitly recalls Abimelech’s death: a woman threw a millstone from the wall at Thebez. The later narrator expects readers to know Judges 9 as a cautionary military precedent.
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