2 Samuel 20:4-13 - Joab Assassinates Amasa

⁴ And the king will say to Amasa, Call together to me the men of Judah in three days, and stand thou here. ⁵ And Amasa will go to call Judah together: and he will delay from the appointment which he appointed him. ⁶ And David will say to Abishai, Now Sheba son of Bichri will do evil to us above Absalom: take thou thy lord's servants and go down after him, lest finding to himself fortified cities and he shadow our eyes.

⁷ And Joab's men went forth after him, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and all the mighty went forth from Jerusalem to pursue after Sheba son of Bichri. ⁸ They by the great stone which is in the hill, and Amasa went before them. And Joab girded his garment being put upon him, and upon it he girded the sword being bound upon his loins in its sheath; and he going forth and it will fall. ⁹ And Joab will say to Amasa, Thou my brother in peace? and Joab's right hand will take hold of Amasa by the beard to kiss him. ¹⁰ And Amasa watched not upon the sword which was in Joab's hand: and he will strike him with it into the belly, and his bowels will be poured forth to the earth; and he repeated not to him; and he will die. And Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba son of Bichri.

¹¹ And a man from Joab's boys stood by him, and he will say, Who delighted in Joab, and who that is for David, after Joab. ¹² And Amasa rolling in blood in the midst of the highway. And the man will see that all the people stood, and he will turn Amasa from the highway to the field, and he will cast upon him a garment when he saw all coming by him and standing. ¹³ When he was taken away from the highway every man passed by after Joab to pursue after Sheba son of Bichri.