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.
And there
2 Samuel 19:41-43 And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to …
Psalm 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivers …
a man
2 Samuel 23:6 But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, …
Deuteronomy 13:13 Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, …
Judges 19:22 Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the …
1 Samuel 2:12 Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD.
1 Samuel 30:22 Then answered all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those that …
Psalm 17:13 Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from …
Proverbs 26:21 As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious …
Habakkuk 1:12,13 Are you not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? we shall …
he blew
2 Samuel 15:10 But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, …
Judges 3:27 And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in …
Proverbs 24:21,22 My son, fear you the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them …
Proverbs 25:8 Go not forth hastily to strive, lest you know not what to do in the …
We have
2 Samuel 19:43 And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have …
1 Kings 12:16 So when all Israel saw that the king listened not to them, the people …
2 Chronicles 10:6 And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had stood before …
Luke 19:14,27 But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, …
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.
every man
2 Samuel 19:41 And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to …
Psalm 62:9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a …
Psalm 118:8-10 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man…
Proverbs 17:14 The beginning of strife is as when one lets out water: therefore …
the men
John 6:66-68 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him…
Acts 11:23 Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted …
from Jordan
2 Samuel 19:15,40,41 So the king returned, and came to Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, …
2 Chronicles 10:17 But as for the children of Israel that dwelled in the cities of Judah, …
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.
Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Judah within three days, and be thou here present.
So Amasa went to assemble the men of Judah: but he tarried longer than the set time which he had appointed him.
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.
Abishai
2 Samuel 2:18 And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and …
2 Samuel 3:30,39 So Joab, and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain …
2 Samuel 10:9,10,14 When Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before …
2 Samuel 18:2,12 And David sent forth a third part of the people under the hand of …
2 Samuel 21:17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succored him, and smote the Philistine, …
2 Samuel 23:18 And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among …
1 Samuel 26:6 Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai …
1 Chronicles 11:20 And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three: for lifting …
1 Chronicles 18:12 Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah slew of the Edomites in the valley …
do us
2 Samuel 19:7 Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably to your servants: …
thy lord's
2 Samuel 11:11 And Uriah said to David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in …
1 Kings 1:33 The king also said to them, Take with you the servants of your lord, …
escape us [heb] deliver himself from our eyes
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.
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.
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.
Art thou
Psalm 55:21 The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in …
Proverbs 26:24-26 He that hates dissembles with his lips, and lays up deceit within him…
Micah 7:2 The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright …
took Amasa Thevenot says, that among the Turks it is a great afront to take one by the beard, unless it be to kiss him, in which case they often do it. D'arvieux, describing an assembly of Arab emirs at an entertainment, says, `After the usual civilities, caresses, {kissings of the beard}, and of the hand, which every one gave and received according to his rank and dignity, they sat down upon mats.' The doing this by the Arab emirs corresponds with the conduct of Joab, and illustrates this horrid assassination.
to kiss him
Matthew 26:48,49 Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall …
Luke 22:47,48 And while he yet spoke, behold a multitude, and he that was called …
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.
in Joab's
2 Samuel 20:9 And Joab said to Amasa, Are you in health, my brother? And Joab took …
Judges 3:21 And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right …
1 Chronicles 12:2 They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and …
he smote
2 Samuel 2:23 However, he refused to turn aside: why Abner with the hinder end …
2 Samuel 3:27 And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the …
Genesis 4:8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when …
1 Kings 2:5,6,31-34 Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and …
and shed
Acts 1:18,19 Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling …
struck him not again [heb] doubled not his {stroke}.
1 Samuel 26:8 Then said Abishai to David, God has delivered your enemy into your …
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.
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.
When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and to Bethmaachah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and went also after him.
Abel Or rather, probably, {Abel of Beth-Maachah}, as in the next verse. It appears, from Joab having marched `through all the tribes of Israel,' to have been situated in the northern confines of the land of Israel, and in the half tribe of Manasseh, east of Jordan, as that was the situation of Maachah, to which it belonged. This agrees with the situation of the {Abela} which Eusebius and Jerome place between Paneas, or Caesarea Philippi, and Damascus. Josephus says it was a fortified city, and a metropolis of the Israelites; and also that it belonged to the ten tribes, having been taken from the king of Damascus.
1 Kings 15:20 So Benhadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of the hosts …
2 Kings 15:29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, …
2 Chronicles 16:4 And Benhadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies …
Berites
Joshua 18:25 Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,
Beeroth
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.
cast up
2 Kings 19:32 Therefore thus said the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall …
Jeremiah 32:24 Behold the mounts, they are come to the city to take it; and the …
Jeremiah 33:4 For thus said the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses …
Luke 19:43 For the days shall come on you, that your enemies shall cast a trench …
a bank So LXX. generally render {solelah}, by (); which latter is described by Potter as `a mount, which was raised so high as to equal, if not exceed, the top of the besieged walls. The sides were walled in with bricks or stones, or secured with strong rafters; the fore part only, {being by degrees to be moved near the walls,} remained bare.'
it stood in the trench or, it stood against the outmost wall
battered, etc. [heb]
mared?? to throw down
Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with thee.
And when he was come near unto her, the woman said, Art thou Joab? And he answered, I am he. Then she said unto him, Hear the words of thine handmaid. And he answered, I do hear.
Then she spake, saying, They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask counsel at Abel: and so they ended the matter.
I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?
peaceable
Genesis 18:23 And Abraham drew near, and said, Will you also destroy the righteous …
Romans 13:3,4 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Will …
1 Timothy 2:2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a …
a mother
Judges 5:7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until …
Ezekiel 16:45-49 You are your mother's daughter, that lothes her husband and her children; …
swallow
2 Samuel 17:16 Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this …
Numbers 16:32 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their …
Numbers 26:10 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with …
Psalm 124:3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
Jeremiah 51:34,44 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed …
Lamentations 2:2,5,16 The LORD has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied…
1 Corinthians 15:54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this …
2 Corinthians 5:4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not …
the inheritance
2 Samuel 21:3 Why David said to the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and with …
Exodus 19:5,6 Now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, …
Deuteronomy 32:9 For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
1 Samuel 26:19 Now therefore, I pray you, let my lord the king hear the words of …
And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.
The matter is not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, even against David: deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall.
a man
2 Samuel 20:1 And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, …
Judges 2:9 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathheres, …
Judges 7:24 And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, …
2 Kings 5:22 And he said, All is well. My master has sent me, saying, Behold…
Jeremiah 4:15 For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes affliction from mount Ephraim.
Jeremiah 50:19 And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed …
by name [heb] by his name
lifted
2 Samuel 23:18 And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among …
1 Samuel 24:6 And he said to his men, The LORD forbid that I should do this thing …
1 Samuel 26:9 And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth …
his head
2 Samuel 17:2,3 And I will come on him while he is weary and weak handed, and will …
2 Kings 10:7 And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took …
Then the woman went unto 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 trumpet, and they retired from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.
in her wisdom
Ecclesiastes 7:19 Wisdom strengthens the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city.
Ecclesiastes 9:14-18 There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a …
he blew
2 Samuel 20:1 And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, …
2 Samuel 2:28 So Joab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still, and pursued …
2 Samuel 18:16 And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing …
retired [heb] were scattered
And Joab
2 Samuel 3:28-39 And afterward when David heard it, he said…
2 Samuel 11:6-21 And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab …
Ecclesiastes 8:11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore …
Now Joab was over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites:
And Adoram was over the tribute: and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder:
And Sheva was scribe: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:
And Ira also the Jairite was a chief ruler about David.
Ira
2 Samuel 23:38 Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite,
1 Chronicles 11:40 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
Ithrite
Jairite
Judges 10:4,5 And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty donkey colts, and they …
chief ruler. or, prince
2 Samuel 8:18 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over both the Cherethites and …
Genesis 41:43,45 And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they …
Exodus 2:14,16 And he said, Who made you a prince and a judge over us? intend you …
The hebrew is {cohen ledawid,} which might be rendered, a {priest of David;} and so the Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac, and Arabic. The chaldee hav {rav}, a chief or prince: probably he was a kind of {domestic chaplain} or {seer} to the king.
2 Samuel 24:11 For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came to …
2 Chronicles 35:15 And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according …
