but do not, ye, stay, chase after your enemies, so shall ye attack them in the rear,—do not suffer them to enter into their cities, for Yahweh your God hath delivered them into your hand.
Why are, well sitting still? Gather yourselves together and let us enter the defenced cities And let us be silent there,—For, Yahweh our God, hath put us to silence And made us drink poisoned water, Because we have sinned against Yahweh.
Then said David unto Abishai, Now, shall Sheba son of Bichri, do us more harm than Absolom,—thou, take the servants of thy lord, and pursue him, lest he have got him into fortified cities, and so have escaped our eye.
But, if, into a city, he withdraw, then will all Israel bring up unto that city, ropes,—and we will drag it down unto the ravine, until there be not found in that place, so much as a small stone.
And it came to pass, when Joshua and the sons of Israel had made an end of smiting them with a very great slaughter, until they were spent, then did, the remainder that were left of them, enter into the fortified cities.