2 Samuel 14:29-31

New English Translation

²⁹ Then Absalom sent a message to Joab asking him to send him to the king, but Joab^[a] was not willing to come to him. So he sent a second message to him, but he still was not willing to come. ³⁰ So he said to his servants, “Look, Joab has a portion of field adjacent to mine and he has some barley there. Go and set it on fire.”^[b] So Absalom’s servants set Joab’s^[c] portion of the field on fire.

³¹ Then Joab got up and came to Absalom’s house. He said to him, “Why did your servants set my portion of field on fire?”