19. I am amongst those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up the Lord’s inheritance?”
20. Joab answered, “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 the hill country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against the king, even against David. Just deliver him, and I will depart from the city.”The woman said to Joab, “Behold, his head will be thrown to you over the wall.”
22. Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. They cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. He blew the shofar, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. Then Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.
23. Now Joab was over all the army of Israel, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites,
24. Adoram was over the men subject to forced labour, Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder,
25. Sheva was scribe, and Zadok and Abiathar were priests,
26. and Ira the Jairite was chief minister to David.