2 Samuel 20 And there has been called there a man of worthlessness, and his name is Sheba, son of Bichri, a Benjamite, and he blows with a trumpet, and said, `We have no portion in David, and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; each to his tents, O Israel..

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And there has been called there a man of worthlessness, and his name [is] Sheba, son of Bichri, a Benjamite, and he blows with a trumpet, and said, `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 goes 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 comes in unto his house at Jerusalem, and the king takes the ten women-concubines--whom he had left to keep the house, and puts them in a house of ward, and sustains them, and unto them he has not gone in, and they are shut up unto the day of their death, in widowhood living. ⁴ And the king said unto Amasa, `Call for me the men of Judah [in] three days, and you, stand here,. ⁵ and Amasa goes to call Judah, and tarries beyond the appointed time that he had appointed him;" ⁶ and David said unto Abishai, `Now does Sheba son of Bichri do evil to us more than Absalom; you, take the servants of your 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 has gone before them, and Joab [is] girded; his long robe he has put on him, and upon it a girdle--a sword [is] fastened upon his loins in its sheath; and he has gone out, and it falls. ⁹ And Joab said to Amasa, `Are you [in] peace, my brother?' and the right hand of Joab lays hold on the beard of Amasa to give a kiss to him;" ¹⁰ and Amasa has not been watchful of the sword that [is] in the hand of Joab, and he smites him with it unto the fifth [rib], and sheds out his bowels to the earth, and he has not repeated [it] to him, and he dies; and Joab and Abishai his brother have pursued after Sheba son of Bichri. ¹¹ And a man has stood by him, of the young men of Joab, and said, `He who has 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 sees that all the people have stood still, and he brings round Amasa out of the highway to the field, and casts over him a garment, when he has seen that every one who has come by him--has stood still. ¹³ When he has been removed out of the highway, every man has passed on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba son of Bichri. ¹⁴ And he passes 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 stands 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 calls out of the city, `Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, and I speak unto you.. ¹⁷ And he comes near unto her, and the woman said, `Are you Joab?' and he said, `I [am].' And she said to him, `Hear the words of your handmaid;' and he said, `I am hearing.. ¹⁸ and she speaks, saying, `They spoke 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; you are seeking to destroy a city, and a mother in Israel; why do you swallow up the inheritance of Yahweh? ²⁰ And Joab answers and said, `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--has lifted up his hand against the king, against David; give you up him by himself, and I go away from the city.' And the woman said unto Joab, `Lo, his head is cast unto you over the wall.. ²² And the woman comes 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 blows with a trumpet, and they are scattered from the city, each to his tents, and Joab has 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 has been minister to David.