10:020:015 And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and
           they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the
           trench:  and all the people that were with Joab battered the
           wall, to throw it down.

10:020:016 Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I
           pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with
           thee.

10:020:017 And when he was come near unto her, the woman said, Art thou
           Joab?  And he answered, I am he.  Then she said unto him, Hear
           the words of thine handmaid.  And he answered, I do hear.

10:020:018 Then she spake, saying, They were wont to speak in old time,
           saying, They shall surely ask counsel at Abel:  and so they
           ended the matter.

10:020:019 I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: 
           thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel:  why
           wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the lord?

10:020:020 And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that
           I should swallow up or destroy.

10:020:021 The matter is not so:  but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the
           son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the
           king, even against David:  deliver him only, and I will depart
           from the city.  And the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head
           shall be thrown to thee over the wall.

10:020:022 Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom.  And
           they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast it
           out to Joab.  And he blew a trumpet, and they retired from the
           city, every man to his tent.  And Joab returned to Jerusalem
           unto the king.

10:020:023 Now Joab was over all the host of Israel:  and Benaiah the son
           of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites: 

10:020:024 And Adoram was over the tribute:  and Jehoshaphat the son of
           Ahilud was recorder: 

10:020:025 And Sheva was scribe:  and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests: 

10:020:026 And Ira also the Jairite was a chief ruler about David.

10:021:001 Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year
           after year; and David enquired of the lord.  And the lord
           answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he
           slew the Gibeonites.

10:021:002 And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now
           the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the
           remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn
           unto them:  and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the
           children of Israel and Judah.)