⁸ While they were at the great rock in Gibeon,^(A) Amasa came to meet them. Joab^(B) was wearing his military tunic, and strapped over it at his waist was a belt with a dagger in its sheath. As he stepped forward, it dropped out of its sheath.

¹⁸ and each of the builders wore his sword at his side as he worked. But the man who sounded the trumpet^(A) stayed with me.