Three sons of Zeruiah [the half sister of David] were there: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was as light and swift-footed as one of the [wild] gazelles in the field.

He built the inner courtyard with three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams.

the sons of Reaiah, the sons of Rezin, the sons of Nekoda,

Tear yourself away like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter
And like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

And like the hunted gazelle,
Or like sheep that no man gathers,
Each [foreign resident] will turn [and go back] to his own people,
And each one flee to his own land.

There was a row of masonry all around inside them, around [each of] the four courtyards, and it was made with cooking hearths under the rows all around.