9. "How are you, my brother?" Joab asked Amasa, and with his right hand he took hold of Amasa’s beard as if to kiss him.
10. But Amasa didn’t notice the sword in Joab’s hand. Joab struck him in the stomach with it so that Amasa’s intestines spilled out on the ground. He died without Joab striking him a second time. Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba, Bichri’s son.
11. One of Joab’s men stood by Amasa and said, "Whoever favors Joab, and whoever is for David, follow Joab!"
12. Amasa was writhing in blood in the middle of the road, and the man saw that everyone was stopping. When he saw this, he dragged Amasa from the road into a field and threw a robe over him.