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1 And there hath been called there a man of worthlessness, and his name [is]
Sheba, son of Bichri, a Benjamite, and he bloweth with a trumpet, and saith,
`We have no portion in David, and we have no inheritance in the son of
Jesse; each to his tents, O Israel.`
2 And every man of Israel goeth up from after David, after Sheba son of
Bichri, and the men of Judah have cleaved to their king, from the Jordan
even unto Jerusalem.
3 And David cometh in unto his house at Jerusalem, and the king taketh the
ten women-concubines -- whom he had left to keep the house, and putteth them
in a house of ward, and sustaineth them, and unto them he hath not gone in,
and they are shut up unto the day of their death, in widowhood living.
4 And the king saith unto Amasa, `Call for me the men of Judah [in] three
days, and thou, stand here,`
5 and Amasa goeth to call Judah, and tarrieth beyond the appointed time that
he had appointed him;
6 and David saith unto Abishai, `Now doth Sheba son of Bichri do evil to us
more than Absalom; thou, take the servants of thy lord, and pursue after
him, lest he have found for himself fenced cities, and delivered himself
[from] our eye.`
7 And the men of Joab go out after him, and the Cherethite, and the
Pelethite, and all the mighty men, and they go out from Jerusalem to pursue
after Sheba son of Bichri;
8 they [are] near the great stone that [is] in Gibeon, and Amasa hath gone
before them, and Joab [is] girded; his long robe he hath put on him, and
upon it a girdle -- a sword [is] fastened upon his loins in its sheath; and
he hath gone out, and it falleth.
9 And Joab saith to Amasa, `Art thou [in] peace, my brother?` and the right
hand of Joab layeth hold on the beard of Amasa to give a kiss to him;
10 and Amasa hath not been watchful of the sword that [is] in the hand of
Joab, and he smiteth him with it unto the fifth [rib], and sheddeth out his
bowels to the earth, and he hath not repeated [it] to him, and he dieth; and
Joab and Abishai his brother have pursued after Sheba son of Bichri.
11 And a man hath stood by him, of the young men of Joab, and saith, `He who
hath delight in Joab, and he who [is] for David -- after Joab!`
12 And Amasa is rolling himself in blood, in the midst of the highway, and
the man seeth that all the people have stood still, and he bringeth round
Amasa out of the highway to the field, and casteth over him a garment, when
he hath seen that every one who hath come by him -- hath stood still.
13 When he hath been removed out of the highway, every man hath passed on
after Joab, to pursue after Sheba son of Bichri.
14 And he passeth over through all the tribes of Israel to Abel, and to
Beth-Maachah, and to all the Berites, and they are assembled, and go in also
after him,
15 and they go in and lay siege against him, in Abel of Beth-Maachah, and
cast up a mount against the city, and it standeth in a trench, and all the
people who are [are] with Joab are destroying, to cause the wall to fall.
16 And a wise woman calleth out of the city, `Hear, hear; say, I pray you,
unto Joab, Come near hither, and I speak unto thee.`
17 And he cometh near unto her, and the woman saith, `Art thou Joab?` and he
saith, `I [am].` And she saith to him, `Hear the words of thy handmaid;` and
he saith, `I am hearing.`
18 and she speaketh, saying, `They spake often in former times, saying, Let
them diligently ask at Abel, and so they finished.
19 I [am] of the peaceable -- faithful ones of Israel; thou art seeking to
destroy a city, and a mother in Israel; why dost thou swallow up the
inheritance of Jehovah?
20 And Joab answereth and saith, `Far be it -- far be it from me; I do not
swallow up nor destroy.
21 The matter [is] not so; for a man of the hill-country of Ephraim -- Sheba
son of Bichri his name -- hath lifted up his hand against the king, against
David; give ye up him by himself, and I go away from the city.` And the
woman saith unto Joab, `Lo, his head is cast unto thee over the wall.`
22 And the woman cometh unto all the people in her wisdom, and they cut off
the head of Sheba son of Bichri, and cast [it] unto Joab, and he bloweth
with a trumpet, and they are scattered from the city, each to his tents, and
Joab hath turned back to Jerusalem unto the king.
23 And Joab [is] over all the host of Israel, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada
[is] over the Cherethite, and over the Pelethite,
24 and Adoram [is] over the tribute, and Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud [is] the
remembrancer,
25 and Sheva [is] scribe, and Zadok and Abiathar [are] priests,
26 and also, Ira the Jairite hath been minister to David.
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