8. When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. JOAB was clothed in his apparel of war that he had put on, and on it was a sash with a sword fastened on his waist in its sheath; and as he went along it fell out.

9. JOAB said to Amasa, "Is it well with you, my brother?" JOAB took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.

10. But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in JOAB's hand. So he struck him with it in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn't strike him again; and he died. JOAB and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.

11. One of JOAB's young men stood by him, and said, "He who favors JOAB, and he who is for David, let him follow JOAB!"

12. Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the middle of the highway. When the man saw that all the people stood still, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a garment over him, when he saw that everyone who came by him stood still.

13. When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after JOAB, to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.

"Moreover you know also what JOAB the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was around his waist, and in his shoes that were on his feet.