He said to me, ‘Stand over me and finish me off! I’m very dizzy, even though I’m still alive.’

Then the king said to Amasa, “Call the men of Judah together for me in three days, and you be present here with them too.”

One of Joab’s soldiers who stood over Amasa said, “Whoever is for Joab and whoever is for David, follow Joab!”

Amasa was squirming in his own blood in the middle of the path, and this man had noticed that all the soldiers stopped. Having noticed that everyone who came across Amasa stopped, the man pulled him away from the path and into the field and threw a garment over him.