^{4 Ref} And the king saith unto Amasa, `Call for me the men of Judah `in' three days, and thou, stand here,'

^{5 Ref} and Amasa goeth to call Judah, and tarrieth beyond the appointed time that he had appointed him;

^{6 Ref} and David saith unto Abishai, `Now doth Sheba son of Bichri do evil to us more than Absalom; thou, take the servants of thy lord, and pursue after him, lest he have found for himself fenced cities, and delivered himself `from' our eye.'

^{7 Ref} And the men of Joab go out after him, and the Cherethite, and the Pelethite, and all the mighty men, and they go out from Jerusalem to pursue after Sheba son of Bichri;

^{8 Ref} they `are' near the great stone that `is' in Gibeon, and Amasa hath gone before them, and Joab `is' girded; his long robe he hath put on him, and upon it a girdle -- a sword `is' fastened upon his loins in its sheath; and he hath gone out, and it falleth.