20And Joab, answering her, said, Far, far be it from me to be a cause of death or destruction;
21Not so: but a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, Sheba, son of Bichri, by name, has taken up arms against the king, against David: give up this man only, and I will go away from the town. And the woman said to Joab, His head will be dropped over the wall to you.
22Then the woman in her wisdom had talk with all the town. And they had Sheba's head cut off and sent out to Joab. And he had the horn sounded, and sent them all away from the town, every man to his tent. And Joab went back to Jerusalem to the king.
23Now Joab was over all the army; and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was at the head of the Cherethites and the Pelethites;
24And Adoram was overseer of the forced work; and Jehoshaphat, the son of Ahilud, was the recorder;
25And Sheva was the scribe, and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
26And in addition, Ira the Jairite was a priest to David.
