2 Samuel 20:11

In the mean time some men of Joab's company stopping at the dead body of Amasa, said: Behold he that would have been in Joab's stead the companion of David.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

10But Amasa did not take notice of the sword, which Joab had, and he struck him in the side, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and gave him not a second wound, and he died. And Joab, and Abisai his brother pursued after Seba the son of Bochri.

12And Amasa imbrued with blood, lay in the midst of the way. A certain man saw this that all the people stood still to look upon him, so he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and covered him with a garment, that they who passed might not stop on his account.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 20:4And the king said to Amasa: Assemble to me all the men of Juda against the third day, and be thou here present.

2 Samuel 20:13And when he was removed out of the way, all the people went on following Joab to pursue after Seba the son of Bochri.

2 Kings 9:32And Jehu lifted up his face to the window, and said : Who is this? And two or three eunuchs bowed down to him.

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 20:5-14

Amasa's Death. ( b. c. 1023.) 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… Read the whole commentary →

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