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he saw that every one that came by him stood still.
13
When he was removed out of the highway,
all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
14
And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and to Beth-maachah, and all the
Berites: and they were gathered together, and went also after him.
15
And they came and besieged
him in Abel of Beth-maachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench:
and all the people that
were
with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.
16
Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near
hither, that I may speak with thee.
17
And when he was come near unto her, the woman said,
Art
thou Joab? And he answered, I
am he.
Then she said unto him, Hear the words of thine handmaid.
And he answered, I do hear.
18
Then she spake, saying, They were wont to speak in old time, saying,
They shall surely ask
counsel
at Abel: and so they ended
the matter.
19
I
am one of them that are
peaceable
and
faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou
swallow up the inheritance of the L
ORD
?
20
And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from
me, that I should swallow up or destroy.
21
The matter
is
not so: but a man of mount Ephraim,
Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king,
even
against David:
deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head
shall be thrown to thee over the wall.
22
Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom.
And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast
it
out to Joab. And he blew a trumpet,
and they retired from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.
23
Now Joab
was
over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada
was
over the
Cherethites and over the Pelethites:
24
And Adoram
was
over the tribute: and Jehoshaphat the son
of Ahilud
was
recorder:
25
And Sheva
was
scribe: and Zadok and Abiathar
were
the priests:
26
And
Ira also the Jairite was a chief ruler about David.
CHAPTER SAMUEL 21
Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of
the L
ORD
. And the L
ORD
answered,
It is
for Saul, and for
his
bloody house, because he slew the
Gibeonites.
2
And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites
were
not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn
unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)
3
Wherefore
David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement,
that ye may bless the inheritance of the L
ORD
?
4
And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have
no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he
said, What ye shall say,
that
will I do for you.
5
And they answered the king, The man that consumed
us, and that devised against us
that
we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of
Israel,
6
Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the L
ORD
in Gibeah of Saul,
whom
the L
ORD
did choose. And the king said, I will give
them.
7
But the king
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