Soothly when they had entered into the house, he slept on his bed in a bed-closet; and they smited and killed him; and when they had taken [off] his head, they went by the way of desert in all that night.
And a messenger came to him, and showed to him, and said, They have brought the heads of the sons of the king. Which answered, Put ye those heads into twain [or two] heaps, beside the entering of the gate, till the morrowtide.