11 One of Joab’s young men stood by Amasa’s body and said, “Everyone who is for Joab and David should follow Joab!”
12 Amasa lay in the middle of the road, covered with his own blood. When the young man saw that everyone was stopping to look at the body, he dragged it from the road, laid it in a field, and put a cloth over it.
13 After Amasa’s body was taken off the road, all the men followed Joab to chase Sheba son of Bicri.
14 Sheba went through all the tribes of Israel to Abel Beth Maacah. All the Berites also came together and followed him.
15 So Joab and his men came to Abel Beth Maacah and surrounded it. They piled dirt up against the city wall, and they began hacking at the walls to bring them down.
16 But a wise woman shouted out from the city, “Listen! Listen! Tell Joab to come here. I want to talk to him!”
17 So Joab came near her. She asked him, “Are you Joab?”He answered, “Yes, I am.”Then she said, “Listen to what I say.”Joab said, “I’m listening.”