²¹ That is not so. But a man from the mountains of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has raised his hand against the king, against David. Deliver him only, and I will depart from the city.”

So the woman said to Joab, “Watch, his head will be thrown to you over the wall.”

⁷ So it was, when the letter came to them, that they took the king’s sons and ^(A)slaughtered seventy persons, put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel.