2 Samuel 20:16-26 ▼

16 Then cryed a wyse woman out of the citie, heare, heare, I pray you say vnto Ioab: Come hither that I may speake with thee.

17 When Ioab was come vnto her, the woman saide: Art thou Ioab? He aunswered: I am he. She saide vnto him: Heare the wordes of thyne handmayd. And he aunswered: I do heare.

18 Then she spake thus: They spake in the olde tyme, saying, They should aske of Abel: And so haue they continued.

19 I am one of them that are peaceable & faithfull in Israel, and thou goest about to destroy a citie, and a mother in Israel: Why wilt thou deuour the inheritaunce of the Lorde?

20 And Ioab aunswered, and sayd: God forbyd, God forbid it me that I should either deuour, or destroy.

21 The matter is not so: But a man of mount Ephraim (Seba the sonne of Bichri by name) hath lyft vp his hand against the king, euen against Dauid: Delyuer vs him onely, & I wyll depart from the citie. And the woman said vnto Ioab: Behold, his head shalbe throwen to thee ouer the wall.

22 And then the woman went vnto all the people with her wisedome, and they smote of the head of Seba ye sonne of Bichri, and cast it out to Ioab: And he blew a trumpet, & they retyred from the citie, euery man to his tent: And Ioab returned to Hierusalem, vnto the king.

23 Ioab was ouer all the hoast of Israel, and Banaia the sonne of Iehoida was ouer the Cerethites & Phelethites.

24 And Aduram was ouer the tribute, and Iehosaphat the sonne of Ahilud, was recorder.

25 Seua was scribe, and Sadoc and Abiathar were the priestes.

26 And Ira the Iairite was chiefe about Dauid.