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14 Sheba passed through all the tribes of Israel to Abel Beth Ma’akah, and all the Berites[a] were gathered together and they followed him.

15 All the men who were with Joab besieged Sheba in Abel Beth Ma’akah. They constructed a siege ramp against the rampart of the city, and they started battering the wall to make it fall down.

16 A wise woman called out from the city, “Listen! Listen! Please tell Joab, ‘Come here and let me speak to you.’”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 20:14 The Hebrew reads Berites. The Greek and Latin versions read Bikrites. There is no other reference to Berites in the Bible.