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2 Samuel 20

1 Sheba raiseth Israél against Dauid 10 Ioáb killeth Amasá traiterously 22 The head of Sheba is deliuered to Ioáb. 23 Dauids chief officers.
1.THen there was come * thither a wicked man (named Shéba the sonne of Bichrí, a man of Iemini) and he blewe the trumpet, and said, We haue no parte in b Dauid, nether haue we inheritance in ye sonne of Ishái: euery man to his tents, ô Israél.
2.So euery man of Israél went from Dauid and followed Shéba the sonne of Bichri: but the men of Iudáh claue fast vnto their King, from d Iordén euen to Ierusalém.
3.¶ When Dauid then came to his house to Ierusalém, the King toke the ten women his * concubines, that he had left behinde him to kepe the house, & put them in warde, and fed them, but lay no more with them: but they were enclosed vnto ye day of their death, liuing in widowhode.
4.¶ Then said the King to e Amasá, Assemble me the mē of Iudáh within thre daies, and be thou here present.
5.So Amasá wēt to assemble Iudáh, but he taried longer then the time which he had appointed him.
6.Then Dauid said to Abishái, Now shal Shéba the sonne of Bichri do vs more harme thē did Absalóm: take thou therefore thy f lords seruants and followe after him, lest he get him walled cities, & escape vs.
7.And there went out after him Ioabs mē, and the * Cherethites and the Pelethites, and all the mightie men: & thei departed out of Ierusalém, to followe after Shéba the sonne of Bichri.
8.Whē thei were at the great stone, which is in Gibeón, Amasá went before them, & Ioabs g garment, that he had put on, was girded vnto him, & vpon it was a sworde girded, which hanged on his loines in the sheath, & as he went, it vsed to falle out.
9.And Ioab said to Amasá, Art thou in "health, my brother? & Ioab toke Amasá by the beard with ye right hād to kisse him.
10.But Amasá toke no hede to the sworde that was in Ioabs hand: for therewith he smote him in the fift rib, and shed out his bowels to the grounde, & "smote him not the seconde time: so he dyed. then Ioab & Abishái his brother followed after Shéba the sonne of Bichri.
11.And one of Ioabs men h stode by him, & said, He that fauoreth Ioab, & he that is of Dauids parte, let him go after Ioab.
12.And Amasá wallowed in blood in the middes of the way: & when the man sawe that all the people stode stil, he remoued Amasá out of the way into ye field, & cast a cloth vpon him, because he sawe that euery one that came by him, stode stil.
13.When he was remoued out of the way, euery man went after Ioab, to followe after Shéba the sonne of Bichri.
14.And he went through all the tribes of Israél vnto Abél, and i Bethmaacháh and all places of Berim: and thei gathered togethe, and went also after him.
15.So thei came, and besieged him in Abél, nere to Bethmaacháh: and thei cast vp a mount against the citie, & the people thereof stode on the ramper, and all the people that was with Ioab, k destroyed and cast downe the wall.
16.¶ Then cryed a wise woman out of the citie, Heare, heare, I pray you, say vnto Ioab, Come thou hither, that I may speake with thee.
17.And when he came nere vnto her, the womā said, Art thou Ioab? And he answered, Yea. And she said to him, Heare the wordes of thine handmayd. And he answered, I do heare.
18.Then she spake thus, l Thei spake in the olde time, saying, Thei shulde aske of Abél, and so haue thei continued.
19.I am m one of them, that are peaceable & faithful in Israél: and thou goest about to destroye a citie, and a mother in Israél: why wilt thou deuoure the inheritance of the Lord?
20.And Ioab answered, & said, God forbid, God forbid it me, that I shulde deuoure, or destroye it.
21.The n matter is not so, but a mā of mount Ephráim (Shéba the sonne of Bichri by name) hathe lift vp his hand against the King, euen against Dauid: deliuer vs him onely, & I will departe from the citie. And the woman said vnto Ioab, Beholde, his head shalbe throwen to thee ouer the wall.
22.Then the woman went vnto all the people with her wisdome, and thei cut of the head of Shéba the sonne of Bichri, & cast it to Ioab: then he blewe the trumpet, and "thei retired from the citie, euery man to his tent: and Ioab returned to Ierusalém vnto the King.
23.* Thé Ioab was ouer all the hoste of Israél, and Banaiáh the sonne of Iehoiadá ouer the Cherethites & ouer ye Pelethites,
24.And Adorám ouer the tribute, and Ioshaphát the sonne of Ahilúd the recorder,
25.And Sheiá was scribe, and Zadók and Abiathár the Priests,
26.And also Irá the Iairite was o chief about Dauid.

Notes

1:*.
Where the ten tribes contended against Iudáh
1:b.
As the: of Iudáh say
1:c.
He thought by speaking contemptuously of the King, to stirre the people rather to sedicion.
1:d.
Frō Gilgál, which was over Iordén
1:*.
Chap 16,22.
3:e.
Who was his chief captaine in Ioabs roume, Chap 19,13
6:f.
Either them which had bene vnder Ioab, or Dauids mē Chap 8,18.
8:g.
Which was his coat, that he vsed to weare in the warres
8:*.
"Ebr. peace.
9:*.
"Ebr. doubled not his stroke
10:h.
He stode by Amasá at Ioabs appointment.
14:i.
Vnto the citie Abél, which was nere to Bethmaacháh.
15:k.
That is, he went about to ouerthrowe it.
18:l.
She sheweth that the olde custome was, not to destroie a citie, before peace was offred, Deut. 20, 10.
18:m.
She speaketh in the name of ye citie.
21:n.
Hearing his faulte tolde hī, he gaue place to reason and required onely him that was autor of the treason.
22:*.
"Ebr. thei were scattered
23:*.
Chap. 8, 16.
26:o.
Either in dignitie, or familiaritie.