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20 Joab answered: »That is unthinkable! I do not wish to swallow it up or destroy it.
21 »That is not so. A man from the mountains of Ephraim by the name of Sheba son of Bichri has rebelled against King David. Give him to me and I will withdraw from the city.« The woman told Joab: »Watch, for his head will be thrown to you from the wall.«
22 She went to the people of the city with her plan. They cut off Sheba’s head and threw it over the wall to Joab. He blew the trumpet as a signal for his men to leave the city. They went back home. Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.
23 Joab was in command of the army of Israel. Benaiah son of Jehoiada was in charge of David’s bodyguards.