15. Ha Sheba a le Abele-Bete-Maaka, balatedi ba Joabe ba mo etsetsa thibella. Ba tshela mobu, wa etsa qubu pela lerako la motse. Ba thuthuka lerako leo hore ba le dihe.
16. Mosadi e mong ya bohlale a howeletsa a le kahara motse, a re: “Theang tsebe, le mamele! Bolellang Joabe, le re: <Atamela kwano, re ke re tlo bua!> ”
17. Joabe a atamela, mme mosadi eo a re ho yena: “Na ke wena Joabe?”Joabe a re: “E, ke nna Joabe!”Jwale mosadi a re ho yena: “Ako mamele puo ya lekgabunyane la hao.”Joabe a re: “Ke mametse!”
18. Mosadi a bua, a re: “Maele a boholoholo a re: <Tsamaya, o yo botsa motseng wa Abele,> ebe taba di fedile.
19. Motse ona wa heso ke o mong wa metse e ratang kgotso, o tshepahalang naheng ya Baiseraele. Empa o batla ho timetsa motse ona, oo e leng mma metse ya Iseraele? Ke ka lebaka lang ha o rata ho ripitla motse oo e leng lefa la Morena?”
20. Joabe a araba, a re: “Le ho ka! Nke ke ka leka ho o ripitla, kapa ho o timetsa.
21. Ha ho jwalo. Monna ya tswang naheng e maralla ya Efraime, ya bitswang Sheba, mora wa Bikiri, o fetohetse kgosi, yena kgosi Davida. Neelana ka yena feela, mme ke tla tloha motseng ona.”Mosadi eo a re ho Joabe: “Ke tla o akgella hlooho ya monna eo le hodima lerako.”