2 Samuel 20:4

Then the king said to Amasa, “Call me the men of Judah together within three days, and be here present.”

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In The King James Version

Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Judah within three days, and be thou here present.

In Context

3David 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 custody and provided them with sustenance, but didn’t go in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood.

5So Amasa went to call the men of Judah together, but he stayed longer than the set time which had been appointed to him.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 17:25Absalom set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.

2 Samuel 19:14He bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as one man, so that they sent to the king, saying, “Return, you and all your servants.”

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 20:2-4

Sheba's Rebellion. ( b. c. 1023.) 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. 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. 3 And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women… Read the whole commentary →

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