And he said to his servants, Behold, Joab’s allotment is to my hand, and to him is barley there. Go and set it on fire. And Absalom’s servants set the allotment on fire.
And say to him, Be on guard and be quiet. Do not fear and not be timid of heart because of the two tails of these smoking firebrands, because of the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
And he kindled fire on the torches, and sent them out into the grain-stalks of the Philistines, and burned from the stacks and the grain-stalks, and to the vineyard and the oliveyard.