When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. And Joab was girded with his apparel of war that he had put on, and thereon was a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.
And whanne þei weren bisidis þe greet stoon, which is in Gabaon, Amasa cam, and ran to hem; forsoþe Joab was clothid with a streit coote at þe mesure of his abit, and was gird aboue with a swerd, eþer dagger, hangynge doun til to þe entrayls in a scheþe, which swerd maad craftily myyte go out bi liyt touchyng, and smyte. Þerfor Joab seide to Amasa,