20. Joab answered, “Get serious! I don’t want to swallow up or destroy anything!
21. That’s not the way things are. There is a man from the hill country of Ephraim named Sheba son of Bicri. He has rebelled against King David. Give me just this one man, and I will leave the city.” The woman said to Joab, “This very minute his head will be thrown over the wall to you!”
22. Then the woman went to all the people with her wise advice and they cut off Sheba’s head and threw it out to Joab. Joab blew the trumpet, and his men dispersed from the city, each going to his own home. Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.
23. Now Joab was the general in command of all the army of Israel. Benaiah the son of Jehoida was over the Kerethites and the Perethites.
24. Adoniram was supervisor of the work crews. Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the secretary.
25. Sheva was the scribe, and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests.
26. Ira the Jairite was David’s personal priest.