20 SHEMU'EL -2- SAMUEL 20

Sheba's Rebellion

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  1     ^¶  And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a shofar, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Yisrael.

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  2    So every man of Yisrael went up from after David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri: but the men of Yahudah clave to their king, from Yardan even to Yerusalem.

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  3    And David came to his house at Yerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not into them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood.

Amasa Slain By Joab

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  4     ^¶  Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Yahudah within three days, and be you here present.

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  5    So Amasa went to assemble [the men of] Yahudah: but he tarried longer than the set time which he had appointed him.

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  6    And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom: take you your master's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape us.

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  7    And there went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men: and they went out of Yerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

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  8    When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Joab's garment that he had put on was girded to him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.

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  9    And Joab said to Amasa, are you in shalom, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him.

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  10    But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth [rib], and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.

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  11    And one of Joab's men stood by him, and said, He that favors Joab, and he that is for David, [let him go] after Joab.

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  12    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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  13    When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

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  14     ^¶  And he went through all the tribes of Yisrael to Abel, and to Bethmaachah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and went also after him.

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  15    And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.

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  16    Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you, to Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with you.

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  17    And when he was come near to her, the woman said, Are you Joab? And he answered, I [am he]. Then she said to him, Hear the words of your handmaid. And he answered, I do hear.

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  18    Then she spoke, saying, They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask [counsel] at Abel: and so they ended [the matter].

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  19    I [am one of them that are] peaceable and faithful in Yisrael: you seek to destroy a city and a mother in Yisrael: why will you swallow up the inheritance of YAHWEH?

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  20    And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.

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  21    The matter is not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against the king, even against David: deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said to Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall.

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  22    Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast it out to Joab. And he blew a shofar, and they retired from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Yerusalem to the king.

David's Officers

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  23     ^¶  Now Joab was over all the host of Yisrael: and BenaYah the son of Yahoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites:

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  24    And Adoram was over the tribute: and Yahoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder:

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  25    And Sheva was scribe: and Zadok and Abiathar were the kohenim:

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  26    And Ira also the Jairite was a chief ruler about David.