When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Joab’s garment that he had put on was tied around him, and upon it a waistband with a sword fastened on his loins in its sheath; and as he went forth it fell out.
And when the natives saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped the sea, yet vengeance did not permit to live.