David said to him, “If you go on with me, you will be a burden to me.

You are my brothers, my own flesh and blood. So why should you be the last to restore the king?’

Helez the Paltite, Ira son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,

Eliahba the Shaalbonite, the sons of Jashen, Jonathan

“Your father put a heavy yoke on us. But now you should lighten the burden of your father’s service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”

Soon his wife Jezebel came in and asked, “Why are you so sullen that you refuse to eat?”

Eluzai, Jerimoth, Bealiah, Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite;

“If the Arameans are too strong for me,” said Joab, “then you will come to my rescue. And if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come to your rescue.

“Your father put a heavy yoke on us. But now you should lighten the burden of your father’s service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”

Then the men who were designated by name arose, took charge of the captives, and provided from the plunder clothing for the naked. They clothed them, gave them sandals and food and drink, anointed their wounds, and put all the feeble on donkeys. So they brought them to Jericho, the City of Palms, to their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria.

And all their neighbors supported them with articles of silver and gold, with goods and livestock, and with valuables, in addition to all their freewill offerings.

The people could not distinguish the shouts of joy from the sound of weeping, because the people were making so much noise. And the sound was heard from afar.