20 Joab protested: “Never! I do not want to destroy!
21 That is not my intention. There is a man named Sheba son of Bichri, from the hill country of Ephraim, who has rebelled against King David. Deliver this one man, and I will withdraw from the city.”The woman replied to Joab, “All right. His head will be thrown over the wall to you.”
22 The woman went to all the people with her wise counsel, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri and threw it to Joab. So he blew the ram’s horn, and they dispersed from the city, each to his own tent. Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.
23 Joab commanded the whole army of Israel; Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and Pelethites;
24 Adoram was in charge of forced labor; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was court historian;
25 Sheva was court secretary; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
26 and in addition, Ira the Jairite was David’s priest.