Sa mu el 458 voice, and after analyzing the data, we may understand the implied author’s comprehensive view and judgment of the chain of events . A ] The narrator does not recount Joab’s plan in his own text, [ he reports only the first stage of the operation, that while Joab lays siege to the city, he assigns Uriah to a place where he knows that warriors are stationed . Then the people of the city come out, battle Joab, and Israelites including the king’s servants are killed, amongst them Uriah the Hittite ( vs . 16 – 17 ) . This report does not look like a carefully planned operation in order to maneuver the Ammonites to open the gate, which would give the Israelites a chance to conquer the city . The narrator focuses mainly on the death of the warriors and Uriah, which seem more like a pointless sacrifice . In this kind of brief report, the narrator pronounces his own judgment that Joab is accountable for the unwarranted killing of Israelite warriors and Uriah . According to the nar...
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