Joab had the trumpet blown to stop the fighting, and his troops came back from pursuing the Israelites.

That is not our plan. A man named Sheba son of Bikri, who is from the hill country of Ephraim, started a rebellion against King David. Hand over this one man, and I will withdraw from the city." "We will throw his head over the wall to you," she said.

Then she went to the people of the city with her plan, and they cut off Sheba's head and threw it over the wall to Joab. He blew the trumpet as a signal for his men to leave the city, and they went back home. And Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.

While the battle raged on, King Ahab remained propped up in his chariot, facing the Syrians. The blood from his wound ran down and covered the bottom of the chariot, and at evening he died.

Near sunset the order went out through the Israelite ranks: "Each of you go back to your own country and city!"

Get rid of a conceited person, and then there will be no more arguments, quarreling, or name-calling.