The young man who was telling him this<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;I just happened to be on Mount Gilboa and came across Saul leaning on his spear for support. The chariots and leaders of the horsemen were in hot pursuit of him.

<p class="bodytext">In the meantime Absalom fled. When the servant who was the watchman looked up, he saw many people coming from the west<n id="1" /> on a road beside the hill.

<p class="bodytext">So David and his men went on their way. But Shimei kept going along the side of the hill opposite him, yelling curses as he threw stones and dirt at them.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">O mountains of Gilboa,p> <p class="poetry">may there be no dew or rain on you, nor fields of grain offerings!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">For it was there that the shield of warriors was defiled;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the shield of Saul lies neglected without oil.<n id="3" />p>

He turned them over to the Gibeonites, and they executed them on a hill before the <sc>Lordsc>. The seven of them<n id="1" /> died<n id="2" /> together; they were put to death during harvest time &#8211; during the first days of the beginning<n id="3" /> of the barley harvest.p>

That&#8217;s not the way things are. There is a man from the hill country of Ephraim named Sheba son of Bicri. He has rebelled<n id="1" /> against King David. Give me just this one man, and I will leave the city.&#8221; The woman said to Joab, &#8220;This very minute<n id="2" /> his head will be thrown over the wall to you!&#8221;p>