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rwbs@2Samuel:20:1 @ And there happened to be there a worthless fellow, whose name Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.

rwbs@2Samuel:20:2 @ So every man of Israel withdrew from following David, followed Sheba the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah held fast to their king, from Jordan even to Jerusalem.

rwbs@2Samuel:20:3 @ And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in custody, and fed them, but went not in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood. (note:)ward: Hebrews. an house of ward(:note)shut…: Heb. boundliving…: Heb. in widowhood of life

rwbs@2Samuel:20:4 @ Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble to me the men of Judah within three days, and be thou here present. (note:)Assemble: Hebrews. Call(:note)

rwbs@2Samuel:20:5 @ So Amasa went to assemble Judah: but he tarried longer than the set time which he had appointed him. (note:)assemble: Hebrews. call(:note)

rwbs@2Samuel:20:6 @ And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than Absalom: take thou thy lord’s servants, and pursue him, lest he get for himself fortified cities, and escape us. (note:)escape…: Hebrews. deliver himself from our eyes(:note)

rwbs@2Samuel:20:7 @ 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 Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

rwbs@2Samuel:20:8 @ When they at the great stone which in Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Joab’s garment that he had put on was girded to him, and upon it a belt a sword fastened upon his loins in its sheath; and as he went forth it fell out.

rwbs@2Samuel:20:9 @ And Joab said to Amasa, thou in health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him.

rwbs@2Samuel:20:10 @ But Amasa took no heed to the sword that in Joab’s hand: so he smote him in the fifth, and shed out his inward parts to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri. (note:)struck…: Hebrews. doubled not his stroke(:note)

rwbs@2Samuel:20:11 @ And one of Joab’s men stood by him, and said, He that favoureth Joab, and he that for David, after Joab.

rwbs@2Samuel:20:12 @ 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.

rwbs@2Samuel:20:13 @ When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

rwbs@2Samuel:20:14 @ And he went through all the tribes of Israel to Abel, and to Bethmaachah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and went also after him.

rwbs@2Samuel:20:15 @ 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 with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down. (note:)in the trench: or, against the outmost wall(:note)battered: Hebrews. marred to throw down

rwbs@2Samuel:20:16 @ Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you, to Joab, Come here, that I may speak with thee.

rwbs@2Samuel:20:17 @ And when he was come near to her, the woman said, thou Joab? And he answered, I. Then she said to him, Hear the words of thy handmaid. And he answered, I do hear.

rwbs@2Samuel:20:18 @ Then she spoke, saying, They were accustomed to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask at Abel: and so they ended. (note:)They were…: or, They plainly spake in the beginning, saying, Surely they will ask of Abel, and so make an end(:note)

rwbs@2Samuel:20:19 @ I peaceable faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?

rwbs@2Samuel:20:20 @ And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.

rwbs@2Samuel:20:21 @ The matter not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, 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 thee over the wall. (note:)by name: Hebrews. by his name(:note)

rwbs@2Samuel:20:22 @ 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 out to Joab. And he blew a trumpet, and they retired from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king. (note:)retired: Hebrews. were scattered(:note)

rwbs@2Samuel:20:23 @ Now Joab over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites:

rwbs@2Samuel:20:24 @ And Adoram over the forced labour: and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud recorder: (note:)recorder: or, remembrancer(:note)

rwbs@2Samuel:20:25 @ And Sheva scribe: and Zadok and Abiathar the priests:

rwbs@2Samuel:20:26 @ And Ira also the Jairite was a chief ruler of David. (note:)a chief…: or, a prince(:note)

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