18 She said, “Long ago they used to say, ‘Go and get your answer in the city of Abel’—and that's just what they did.
19 Ours is a great city, one of the most peaceful and loyal in Israel. Why are you trying to destroy it? Do you want to ruin what belongs to the Lord?”
20 “Never!” Joab answered. “I will never ruin or destroy your city!
21 That is not our plan. A man named Sheba son of Bikri, who is from the hill country of Ephraim, started a rebellion against King David. Hand over this one man, and I will withdraw from the city.”“We will throw his head over the wall to you,” she said.
22 Then she went to the people of the city with her plan, and they cut off Sheba's head and threw it over the wall to Joab. He blew the trumpet as a signal for his men to leave the city, and they went back home. And Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.
23 Joab was in command of the army of Israel; Benaiah son of Jehoiada was in charge of David's bodyguards;
24 Adoniram was in charge of the forced labor; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was in charge of the records;