And Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
A certain. Hebrew, "the man "stationed by Joab, near the body, to inform those who passed, that he had been justly slain. Josephus, ( vii. 10,) who observes, that this crime of Joab proceeded from envy, and was less deserving of excuse than the murder of Abner. (Haydock)