These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
2 Samuel 20
Tanakh 26 verses
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Now there happened to be there a base fellow, whose was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite; and he blew the horn, and said: ‘We have no portion in , neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse; every man to his tents, O .’
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So all the men of went up from following , and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of did cleave unto their , from the even to .
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And came to his house at ; and the took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and provided them with sustenance, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, in widowhood, with their husband alive.
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Then said the to Amasa: ‘Call me the men of together within three days, and be thou here present.’
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So Amasa went to call the men of together; but he tarried longer than the set time which he had appointed him.
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- 6 And said to Abishai: ‘Now will Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did ; take thou thy lord’s servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.’
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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 , to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
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When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. And Joab was girded with his apparel of war that he had put on, and thereon was 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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And Joab said to Amasa: ‘Is it well with thee, my brother?’ And Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.
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- 10 But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand; so he smote him therewith in the groin, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. And Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
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And there stood by him one of Joab’s young men, and said: ‘He that favoureth Joab, and he that is for let him follow Joab.’
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And Amasa lay wallowing in his in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a garment over him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still.
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- 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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And he went through all the tribes of unto , and to Beth-maacah, and all the Berites; and they were gathered together, and went in also after him.
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And they came and besieged him in of Beth-maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood in the moat; and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.
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Then cried a wise woman out of the city: ‘Hear, ; say, I pray you, unto Joab: Come near hither, that I may speak with thee.’
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And he came near unto her; and the woman said: ‘Art thou Joab?’ And he answered: ‘I am.’ Then she said unto him: ‘Hear the words of thy handmaid.’ And he answered: ‘I do .’
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Then she spoke, saying: ‘They were wont to speak in old time, saying: They shall surely ask counsel at ; and so they ended the matter.
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We are of them that are peaceable and faithful in ; seekest thou to destroy a city and a mother in ? why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of ?’
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1 Samuel 26:19 2 Samuel 21:3 2 Samuel 17:16 1 Corinthians 15:54 Jeremiah 51:34 Romans 13:3-4 Psalm 124:3 Ezekiel 16:45-49 Lamentations 2:2 2 Corinthians 5:4 Numbers 26:10 Genesis 18:23 Judges 5:7 Jeremiah 51:44 Lamentations 2:16 1 Timothy 2:2 Exodus 19:5-6 Numbers 16:32 Lamentations 2:5 Deuteronomy 32:9 -
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And Joab answered and said: ‘Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.
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- 21 The matter is not so; but a man of the hill-country of , Sheba the son of Bichri by , hath lifted up his hand against the , even against ; 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.’
- 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 threw it out to Joab. And he blew the horn, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to unto the .
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Now Joab was over all the host of ; and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites;
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and Adoram was over the levy; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder;
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and Sheva was scribe; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
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- 26 and Ira also the Jairite was chief minister unto .