A messenger talks to the king.

From 2 Samuel 11:18-25

“You had to tell David about Uriah? Was that the battle when several men were killed?”

The man nodded. Jethro filled the messenger’s cup again. “It was a strange thing. We were sending squads into battle regularly those days. But it was almost a battle game. We’d advance, they’d fire, we’d back up. There weren’t many injuries. That day, a squad went into battle, but apparently they had orders to actually engage the Ammonites. And it was right into the toughest enemy.”

Jeth...