¹² Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the middle of the road, and the man saw that all the troops came to a halt^(A) there. When he realized that everyone who came up to Amasa stopped, he dragged him from the road into a field and threw a garment over him.

¹³ After Amasa had been removed from the road, everyone went on with Joab to pursue Sheba son of Bikri.