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II SAMUEL

II Samuel 20

1Now by chance there was present a good-for-nothing person named Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he, sounding the horn, said, We have no part in David, or any interest in the son of Jesse: let every man go to his tent, O Israel.

1 Kings 12:16, 1 Kings 12:16, 2 Chronicles 10:16, Deuteronomy 13:13, 2 Chronicles 10:16

2So all the men of Israel, turning away from David, went after Sheba, the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah were true to their king, going with him from Jordan as far as Jerusalem.

Acts 11:23, John 6:66, John 6:68, Acts 11:23, John 6:66

3And David came to his house at Jerusalem: and the king took the ten women to whom he had given the care of the house, and had them shut up, and gave them the necessaries of life, but did not go near them. So they were shut up till the day of their death, living as widows.

2 Samuel 16:21, 2 Samuel 16:22, 2 Samuel 16:21, 2 Samuel 16:22, 2 Samuel 15:16

4Then the king said to Amasa, Get all the men of Judah together, and in three days be here yourself.

2 Samuel 17:25, 2 Samuel 19:13, 2 Samuel 17:25, 2 Samuel 19:13, 1 Chronicles 2:17

5So Amasa went to get all the men of Judah together, but he took longer than the time David had given him.

1 Samuel 13:8, 2 Samuel 19:13, 1 Samuel 13:8, 2 Samuel 19:13

6And David said to Abishai, Sheba, the son of Bichri, will do us more damage than Absalom did; so take some of your lord's servants and go after him, before he makes himself safe in the walled towns, and gets away before our eyes.

2 Samuel 11:11, 2 Samuel 21:17, 1 Kings 1:33, 2 Samuel 11:11, 2 Samuel 21:17

7So there went after Abishai, Joab and the Cherethites and the Pelethites and all the fighting-men; they went out of Jerusalem to overtake Sheba, the son of Bichri.

2 Samuel 8:18, 2 Samuel 8:18, 1 Kings 1:38, 1 Kings 1:38, 2 Samuel 20:23

8When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came face to face with them. Now Joab had on his war-dress, and round him a band from which his sword was hanging in its cover; and while he was walking, it came out, falling to the earth.

2 Samuel 3:30, 2 Samuel 3:30, 2 Samuel 2:13, 2 Samuel 2:13, 2 Samuel 20:4

9And Joab said to Amasa, Is it well, my brother? And with his right hand he took him by the hair of his chin to give him a kiss.

Matthew 26:48, Matthew 26:49, Luke 22:47, Luke 22:48, Matthew 26:48

10But Amasa did not see danger from the sword which was now in Joab's left hand, and Joab put it through his stomach so that his inside came out on to the earth, and he did not give him another blow. So Joab and his brother Abishai went on after Sheba, the son of Bichri.

2 Samuel 2:23, 2 Samuel 2:23, 2 Samuel 3:27, 2 Samuel 3:27, Judges 3:21

11And one of Joab's young men, taking his place at Amasa's side, said, Whoever is for Joab and for David, let him go after Joab!

2 Samuel 20:13, 2 Samuel 20:13, 2 Samuel 20:6, 2 Samuel 20:7, 2 Samuel 20:4

12And Amasa was stretched out in a pool of blood in the middle of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people were stopping, he took Amasa out of the highway and put him in a field, with a cloth over him, when he saw that everyone who went by came to a stop.

Proverbs 24:21, Proverbs 24:22, Psalms 9:16, Proverbs 24:21, Proverbs 24:22

13When he had been taken off the road, all the people went on after Joab in search of Sheba, the son of Bichri.

Isaiah 36:2, Mark 10:46, Numbers 20:19, Isaiah 7:3, Judges 21:19

14And Sheba went through all the tribes of Israel, to Abel of Beth-maacah; and all the Bichrites came together and went in after him.

2 Kings 15:29, 2 Kings 15:29, 1 Kings 15:20, 2 Chronicles 16:4, Joshua 18:25

15And Joab and his men got him shut up in Abel of Beth-maacah, and put up an earthwork against the town: and all Joab's men did their best to get the wall broken down.

2 Kings 19:32, 2 Kings 19:32, Jeremiah 32:24, Jeremiah 32:24, 1 Kings 15:20

16Then a wise woman got up on the wall, and crying out from the town, said, Give ear, give ear; say now to Joab, Come near, so that I may have talk with you.

2 Samuel 14:2, 2 Samuel 14:2, Ecclesiastes 9:14, Ecclesiastes 9:18, Ecclesiastes 9:14

17And he came near, and the woman said, Are you Joab? And he said in answer, I am. Then she said, Give ear to your servant's words. And he said, I am giving ear.

1 Samuel 25:24, 2 Samuel 14:12, 1 Samuel 25:24, 2 Samuel 14:12

18Then she said, In the old days, there was a saying, Let them put the question in Abel and in Dan, saying, Has what was ordered by men of good faith in Israel ever come to an end?

Deuteronomy 20:10, Deuteronomy 20:11, Deuteronomy 20:10, Deuteronomy 20:11

19Your purpose is the destruction of a mother-town in Israel: why would you put an end to the heritage of the Lord?

1 Samuel 26:19, 1 Samuel 26:19, 2 Samuel 21:3, 2 Samuel 21:3, 2 Samuel 17:16

20And Joab, answering her, said, Far, far be it from me to be a cause of death or destruction;

Proverbs 28:13, Job 21:16, 2 Samuel 23:17, Luke 10:29, 2 Samuel 20:10

21Not so: but a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, Sheba, son of Bichri, by name, has taken up arms against the king, against David: give up this man only, and I will go away from the town. And the woman said to Joab, His head will be dropped over the wall to you.

Jeremiah 50:19, 1 Samuel 26:9, 2 Samuel 20:1, Jeremiah 4:15, 2 Samuel 23:18

22Then the woman in her wisdom had talk with all the town. And they had Sheba's head cut off and sent out to Joab. And he had the horn sounded, and sent them all away from the town, every man to his tent. And Joab went back to Jerusalem to the king.

2 Samuel 20:1, Ecclesiastes 7:19, 2 Samuel 20:1, Ecclesiastes 7:19, 2 Samuel 18:16

23Now Joab was over all the army; and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was at the head of the Cherethites and the Pelethites;

2 Samuel 8:16, 2 Samuel 8:18, 2 Samuel 8:16, 2 Samuel 8:18, 1 Chronicles 18:15

24And Adoram was overseer of the forced work; and Jehoshaphat, the son of Ahilud, was the recorder;

1 Kings 4:3, 1 Kings 12:18, 1 Kings 4:3, 1 Kings 12:18, 1 Kings 4:6

25And Sheva was the scribe, and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

2 Samuel 8:17, 1 Kings 4:4, 2 Samuel 8:17, 1 Kings 4:4, 1 Chronicles 18:16

26And in addition, Ira the Jairite was a priest to David.

2 Samuel 23:38, Exodus 2:14, 2 Samuel 23:38, Exodus 2:14, Genesis 41:45

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