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II Samuel Chapter 20

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II Samuel

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In this chapter David deals with the Ammonites who have taken his son Absalom captive and dispatches Joab to lead a military effort to rescue him. The passage also shows Joab’s harsh treatment of the Ammonite prisoners, underscoring the theme of divine judgment and the high cost of warfare.

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(1) 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.
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II Samuel 19:41II Samuel 19:42II Samuel 19:43Psalms 34:19II Samuel 23:6Deuteronomy 13:13Judges 19:22I Samuel 2:12I Samuel 30:22Psalms 17:13Proverbs 26:21Habakkuk 1:12

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Revelation 8:12I Kings 12:16II Chronicles 10:16II Samuel 20:22Numbers 18:20Numbers 33:54

(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.
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II Samuel 19:41Psalms 62:9Psalms 118:8Psalms 118:9Psalms 118:10Proverbs 17:14John 6:66John 6:67John 6:68Acts 11:23II Samuel 19:15II Samuel 19:40

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Joshua 4:7

(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.
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II Samuel 15:16II Samuel 16:21II Samuel 16:22Genesis 40:3

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II Samuel 15:16

(4) Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Judah within three days, and be thou here present.
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II Samuel 17:25II Samuel 19:13I Chronicles 2:17

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Isaiah 22:16Acts 25:24

(5) So Amasa went to assemble the men of Judah: but he tarried longer than the set time which he had appointed him.
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II Samuel 19:13I Samuel 13:8

(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.
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II Samuel 2:18II Samuel 3:30II Samuel 3:39II Samuel 10:9II Samuel 10:10II Samuel 10:14II Samuel 18:2II Samuel 18:12II Samuel 21:17II Samuel 23:18I Samuel 26:6I Chronicles 11:20

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Genesis 19:17II Samuel 15:14II Samuel 20:7II Samuel 20:10II Samuel 20:13II Samuel 18:5

(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.
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II Samuel 20:23II Samuel 8:16II Samuel 8:18II Samuel 15:18II Samuel 23:22II Samuel 23:23I Kings 1:38I Kings 1:44

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II Samuel 20:6II Samuel 20:10II Samuel 20:13

(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.
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II Samuel 2:13II Samuel 3:30II Samuel 20:4II Samuel 20:5

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Leviticus 8:7I Samuel 17:49Isaiah 28:16Judges 5:27Leviticus 13:47Psalms 109:19

(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.
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Psalms 55:21Proverbs 26:24Proverbs 26:25Proverbs 26:26Micah 7:2Matthew 26:48Matthew 26:49Luke 22:47Luke 22:48

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II Samuel 17:25I Kings 2:28II Samuel 2:14II Samuel 3:23II Samuel 3:29II Samuel 11:6

(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.
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II Samuel 20:9Judges 3:21I Chronicles 12:2II Samuel 2:23II Samuel 3:27Genesis 4:8I Kings 2:5I Kings 2:6I Kings 2:31I Kings 2:32I Kings 2:33I Kings 2:34

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II Samuel 2:23II Samuel 3:27II Samuel 20:22II Samuel 17:25II Samuel 20:9II Samuel 4:6

(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.
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II Samuel 20:6II Samuel 20:7II Samuel 20:13II Samuel 20:21II Samuel 20:4II Kings 9:32

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I Kings 2:28II Samuel 2:14II Samuel 3:23II Samuel 3:29II Samuel 11:6II Samuel 14:19

(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 he saw that every one that came by him stood still.
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II Samuel 17:25Psalms 9:16Psalms 55:23Proverbs 24:21Proverbs 24:22

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II Samuel 17:25II Samuel 20:9I Chronicles 2:17Genesis 23:17Exodus 9:25Exodus 22:5

(13) When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
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II Samuel 20:12Numbers 20:19Judges 21:19I Samuel 6:12II Kings 18:17Proverbs 16:17Isaiah 7:3Isaiah 36:2Isaiah 62:10Jeremiah 31:21Mark 10:46

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II Samuel 20:22II Samuel 20:12II Samuel 20:6II Samuel 20:7II Samuel 20:10II Samuel 20:21

(14) 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.
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I Kings 15:20II Kings 15:29II Chronicles 16:4Joshua 18:25

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Exodus 16:18Numbers 11:32

(15) 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.
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II Kings 19:32Jeremiah 32:24Jeremiah 33:4Luke 19:43

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II Chronicles 26:6I Kings 2:28I Chronicles 20:1

(16) 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.
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II Samuel 14:2I Samuel 25:3I Samuel 25:32I Samuel 25:33Ecclesiastes 9:14Ecclesiastes 9:15Ecclesiastes 9:16Ecclesiastes 9:17Ecclesiastes 9:18

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I Kings 2:28

(17) 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.
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II Samuel 14:12I Samuel 25:24

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Ruth 3:9I Samuel 1:11II Samuel 14:19I Kings 2:28

(18) 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.
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Deuteronomy 20:10Deuteronomy 20:11

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Jeremiah 44:25Jeremiah 49:20Jeremiah 50:45II Samuel 17:14

(19) 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?
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Genesis 18:23Romans 13:3Romans 13:4I Timothy 2:2Judges 5:7Ezekiel 16:45Ezekiel 16:46Ezekiel 16:47Ezekiel 16:48Ezekiel 16:49II Samuel 17:16Numbers 16:32

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II Kings 8:12Luke 12:53Numbers 33:54Numbers 36:3Numbers 36:4Judges 5:28

(20) And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.
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II Samuel 23:17Job 21:16Job 22:18II Samuel 20:10Proverbs 28:13Jeremiah 17:9Luke 10:29

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Genesis 18:25Psalms 103:12Mark 6:35Isaiah 13:5I Kings 2:28

(21) 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.
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II Samuel 20:1Judges 2:9Judges 7:24II Kings 5:22Jeremiah 4:15Jeremiah 50:19II Samuel 23:18I Samuel 24:6I Samuel 26:9II Samuel 17:2II Samuel 17:3II Kings 10:7

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II Samuel 20:22Isaiah 11:13II Samuel 20:10II Samuel 20:13Exodus 19:20Joshua 20:7

(22) 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.
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Ecclesiastes 7:19Ecclesiastes 9:14Ecclesiastes 9:15Ecclesiastes 9:16Ecclesiastes 9:17Ecclesiastes 9:18II Samuel 20:1II Samuel 2:28II Samuel 18:16II Samuel 3:28II Samuel 3:29II Samuel 3:30

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II Samuel 18:16I Kings 2:28Genesis 31:33II Samuel 20:1II Samuel 20:10II Samuel 20:13

(23) Now Joab was over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites:
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II Samuel 8:16II Samuel 8:17II Samuel 8:18I Chronicles 18:15I Chronicles 18:16I Chronicles 18:17

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II Samuel 24:4II Samuel 8:18I Kings 1:38I Kings 1:44I Chronicles 18:17II Samuel 3:23

(24) And Adoram was over the tribute: and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder:
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I Kings 4:6I Kings 12:18I Kings 4:3

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II Samuel 8:16I Kings 4:3I Chronicles 18:15

(25) And Sheva was scribe: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:
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II Samuel 8:17I Kings 4:4I Chronicles 18:16

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II Samuel 15:35II Samuel 8:17I Chronicles 18:16I Chronicles 24:6

(26) And Ira also the Jairite was a chief ruler about David.
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II Samuel 23:38I Chronicles 11:40Judges 10:4Judges 10:5II Samuel 8:18Genesis 41:43Genesis 41:45Exodus 2:14Exodus 2:16Exodus 24:11II Chronicles 35:15

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