²⁰ Joab answered, “Far be it from me, far be it, that I should swallow up or destroy!

²¹ That is not the case! But a man of the hill country of Ephraim called Sheba son of Bichri has lifted up his hand against King David; give him up alone, and I will withdraw from the city.” The woman said to Joab, “His head shall be thrown over the wall to you.”^(A)