10:020:002 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.
10:020:003 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.
10:020:004 Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me
the men of Judah
within
three days, and be thou here present.
10:020:005 So Amasa went to assemble the men of Judah:
but he tarried
longer
than the set time which he had appointed him.
10:020:006 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.
10:020:007 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.
10:020:008 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.
10:020:009 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.
10:020:010 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.
10:020:011 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.
10:020:012 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.
10:020:013 When he was removed out of the highway,
all the people went on
after
Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
10:020:014 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.


