And he sent forth arrows, and scattered them, - lightning, and confused them;

For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

And the woman took a covering and spread it over the well’s mouth and scattered grain on it, so that nothing was known.

Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. And he blew the ram's horn, and they scattered from the city, each man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.

“Then I beat them as [small as] the dust of the earth;
I crushed and stamped them as the mire (dirt, mud) of the streets.

And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.

And the king went forth, and all the people after him, and tarried in a place that was far off.