And they took Absalom and threw him into a great pit in the forest, and set up a very great heap of stones over him. And all Israel fled, each man to his tent.
And Joab came in to the king to the house, and said, You have put to shame today the faces of all your servants, those delivering your life today, and the life of your sons, and of your daughters, and the life of your wives, and the life of your concubines,
And the king rose up and sat in the gate. And they told it to all the people, saying, Behold, the king is sitting in the gate. And all the people came in before the king. And Israel had fled, each man to his tents.
And it happened, all the people were quarreling through all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies. Yea, he himself delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines. And now he has fled out of the land because of Absalom.
And a man of worthlessness met them there, and his name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a man of Benjamin. And he blew the rams’ horn and said, We have no part in David, and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; each man to his tents, O Israel.
And the woman came to all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri and threw it to Joab. And he blew the rams’ horn, and they were dispersed from the city, each man to his tents. And Joab went back to Jerusalem to the king.
And Jehoram passed over to Zair, and all the chariots with him. And it happened, he rose up by night and struck Edom; he and the commanders of the chariots had turned around him. And the people fled to their tents.
and they shall say to the elders of his city, This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he will not listen to our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, and he shall die. So you shall consume the evil from among you, that all Israel shall hear, and fear.
And it happened at the time of the going of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees, and threw them into the cave where they had been hidden, and put great stones on the mouth of the cave until this very day.
And they raised over him a great heap of stones to this day. And Jehovah turned back from the heat of His anger. On account of this, the name of that place is called The Valley of Grief until this day.
And he hanged the king of Ai on the tree until evening time. And at sundown Joshua commanded, and they took his dead body down from the tree, and threw it into the opening of the gate of the city; and raised over it a great heap of stones until this day.
And the Philistines fought, and Israel was stricken. And they each one fled to his tent. And the slaughter was very great, and thirty thousand footmen of Israel fell.