2 Samuel 19:41-20:13 And, lo, all the men of Israel are coming unto the king, and they say unto the king, `Wherefore have they stolen you--our brethren, the men of Judah?' (and they bring the king and his household over the Jordan, and all the men of David with him).

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁴¹ And, lo, all the men of Israel are coming unto the king, and they say unto the king, `Wherefore have they stolen you--our brethren, the men of Judah?' (and they bring the king and his household over the Jordan, and all the men of David with him). ⁴² And all the men of Judah answer against the men of Israel, `Because the king [is] near unto us, and why [is] this--you are displeased about this matter? have we at all eaten of the king's [substance?] a gift has he lifted up to us?. ⁴³ And the men of Israel answer the men of Judah, and say, `Ten parts we have in the king, and also in David more than you; and wherefore have you lightly esteemed us, that our word has not been first to bring back our king?' And the word of the men of Judah is sharper than the word of the men of Israel. ²⁰ ¹ And there has been called there a man of worthlessness, and his name [is] Sheba, son of Bichri, a Benjamite, and he blows with a trumpet, and said, `We have no portion in David, and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; each to his tents, O Israel.. ² And every man of Israel goes up from after David, after Sheba son of Bichri, and the men of Judah have cleaved to their king, from the Jordan even unto Jerusalem. ³ And David comes in unto his house at Jerusalem, and the king takes the ten women-concubines--whom he had left to keep the house, and puts them in a house of ward, and sustains them, and unto them he has not gone in, and they are shut up unto the day of their death, in widowhood living. ⁴ And the king said unto Amasa, `Call for me the men of Judah [in] three days, and you, stand here,. ⁵ and Amasa goes to call Judah, and tarries beyond the appointed time that he had appointed him;" ⁶ and David said unto Abishai, `Now does Sheba son of Bichri do evil to us more than Absalom; you, take the servants of your lord, and pursue after him, lest he have found for himself fenced cities, and delivered himself [from] our eye.. ⁷ And the men of Joab go out after him, and the Cherethite, and the Pelethite, and all the mighty men, and they go out from Jerusalem to pursue after Sheba son of Bichri;" ⁸ they [are] near the great stone that [is] in Gibeon, and Amasa has gone before them, and Joab [is] girded; his long robe he has put on him, and upon it a girdle--a sword [is] fastened upon his loins in its sheath; and he has gone out, and it falls. ⁹ And Joab said to Amasa, `Are you [in] peace, my brother?' and the right hand of Joab lays hold on the beard of Amasa to give a kiss to him;" ¹⁰ and Amasa has not been watchful of the sword that [is] in the hand of Joab, and he smites him with it unto the fifth [rib], and sheds out his bowels to the earth, and he has not repeated [it] to him, and he dies; and Joab and Abishai his brother have pursued after Sheba son of Bichri. ¹¹ And a man has stood by him, of the young men of Joab, and said, `He who has delight in Joab, and he who [is] for David--after Joab!. ¹² And Amasa is rolling himself in blood, in the midst of the highway, and the man sees that all the people have stood still, and he brings round Amasa out of the highway to the field, and casts over him a garment, when he has seen that every one who has come by him--has stood still. ¹³ When he has been removed out of the highway, every man has passed on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba son of Bichri.