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blessed him; and he returned unto his own place.
40
Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham
went on with him: and all the people of Judah conducted the king, and also half the people of Israel.
41
And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said unto the king, Why have our
brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away, and have brought the king, and his household, and all
David’s men with him, over Jordan?
42
And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel,
Because the king
is
near of kin to us: wherefore then be ye angry for this matter? have we eaten at
all of the king’s
cost?
or hath he given us any gift?
43
And the men of Israel answered the men of
Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more
right
in David than ye: why
then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the
words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
CHAPTER SAMUEL 20
And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name
was
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.
2
So every man of Israel went up from after
David,
and
followed Sheba the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah clave unto their king, from
Jordan even to Jerusalem.
3
And David came to his house at Jerusalem; 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 in unto them.
So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.
4
Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Judah within three days, and be thou
here present.
5
So Amasa went to assemble
the men of
Judah: but he tarried longer than the set time
which he had appointed him.
6
And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do
us more harm than
did
Absalom: take thou thy lord’s servants, and pursue after him, lest he get
him fenced cities, and escape us.
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.
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 unto 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.
9
And Joab said to
Amasa,
Art
thou in health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to
kiss him.
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.
11
And one of Joab’s men stood
by him, and said, He that favoureth Joab, and he that
is
for David,
let him go
after Joab.
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
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