2 Samuel 20:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

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, nor any inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    Now a troublemaker named Sheba, son of Bichri, a Benjamite, happened to be there. He blew the trumpet and declared, "We have no share in David, no inheritance in Jesse's son. Every man to his tent, Israel!"

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And there happened to be there a base fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew the trumpet, and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    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.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    There was a famous man of Belial there, whose name was Seba ye sonne of Bichri, a ma of Iemini, which blewe the trompe, and sayde: We haue no porcion in Dauid, ner inheritaunce in ye sonne of Isai: let euery get him to his tent, O Israel.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Then there was come thither a wicked man (named Sheba the sonne of Bichri, a man of Iemini) and hee blew the trumpet, and saide, Wee haue no part in Dauid, neither haue we inheritance in the sonne of Ishai: euery man to his tents, O Israel.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    When there came thither a certaine man of Belial, named Seba, the sonne of Bichri, a man of Iemini, he blew a trumpet, and said: we haue no part in Dauid, neither haue we inheritaunce in the sonne of Isai: euery man to his tentes, O Israel.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    ¶ 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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    There happened to be there a base fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew the trumpet, and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, Israel.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And there hath been called there a man of worthlessness, and his name `is' Sheba, son of Bichri, a Benjamite, and he bloweth with a trumpet, and saith, `We have no portion in David, and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; each to his tents, O Israel.'

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And there happened to be there a base fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew the trumpet, and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And there happened to be there a base fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew the trumpet, and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Now by chance there was present a good-for-nothing person named Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he, sounding the horn, said, We have no part in David, or any interest in the son of Jesse: let every man go to his tent, O Israel.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    There happened to be there a base fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew the trumpet, and said, "We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, Israel!"

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Sheba’s Rebellion Now a wicked man named Sheba son of Bicri, a Benjaminite, happened to be there. He blew the trumpet and said,“We have no share in David; we have no inheritance in this son of Jesse! Every man go home, O Israel!”

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 12:16 : 16 So when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, O Israel! Now see to your own house, David. So Israel departed to their tents.
  • Deut 13:13 : 13 Certain men, the children of Belial, have gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known;
  • 2 Chr 10:16 : 16 And when all Israel saw that the king would not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, What part have we in David? And we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to your tents, O Israel; and now, David, see to your own house. So all Israel went to their tents.
  • Ps 17:13 : 13 Arise, O LORD, confront him, cast him down; deliver my soul from the wicked, which is your sword:
  • Ps 34:19 : 19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivers him out of them all.
  • Prov 24:21-22 : 21 My son, fear the LORD and the king; do not associate with those given to change. 22 For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knows the ruin of them both?
  • Prov 25:8 : 8 Do not go forth hastily to contend, lest you know not what to do in the end thereof, when your neighbor has put you to shame.
  • Prov 26:21 : 21 As coals to burning coals, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
  • Hab 1:12-13 : 12 Are You not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, You have appointed them for judgment; O mighty God, You have established them for correction. 13 You are of purer eyes than to behold evil and cannot look on wickedness. Why do You look on those who deal treacherously and hold Your tongue when the wicked devours a man more righteous than he?
  • Luke 19:14 : 14 But his citizens hated him and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
  • Luke 19:27 : 27 But those my enemies, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them before me.
  • Judg 3:27 : 27 And it came to pass, when he had arrived, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mountain, and he before them.
  • Judg 19:22 : 22 As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, surrounded the house, and beat at the door, and spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, "Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may know him."
  • 1 Sam 2:12 : 12 Now the sons of Eli were worthless men; they did not know the LORD.
  • 1 Sam 22:7-8 : 7 Then Saul said to his servants that stood about him, Hear now, you Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, and make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds; 8 That all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that shows me that my son has made a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or shows to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
  • 1 Sam 30:22 : 22 Then all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those that went with David, answered and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them any of the spoil that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away, and depart.
  • 2 Sam 15:10 : 10 But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall say, Absalom reigns in Hebron.
  • 2 Sam 19:41-43 : 41 And behold, all the men of Israel came to the king and said to the king, Why have our brethren, the men of Judah, stolen you away and brought the king and his household, and all David's men with him, over the Jordan? 42 And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us; why then are you angry for this matter? Have we eaten at all of the king's expense? Or has he given us any gift? 43 And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than you; why then did you despise us, that our advice was not first in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
  • 2 Sam 23:6 : 6 But the sons of Belial shall all be as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:
  • 2 Chr 10:6 : 6 And King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel do you give me to return an answer to this people?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Sam 20:2
    82%

    2So all the men of Israel left David and followed Sheba the son of Bichri, but the men of Judah stayed loyal to their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Sam 20:21-23
    3 verses
    76%

    21The matter is not so; but a man from the hill country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has raised his hand against the king, against David. Deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. The woman said to Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall.

    22Then the woman went to all the people with her wise advice. They cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri and threw it to Joab. He blew the trumpet, and they dispersed from the city, each to his tent. Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.

    23Now Joab was over all the army of Israel, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites.

  • 2 Sam 20:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6And David said to Abishai, Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom did; take your master’s servants and pursue him, lest he find fortified cities and escape from us.

    7So Joab's men, the Cherethites, the Pelethites, and all the mighty men went out after him, and they left Jerusalem to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.

  • 2 Chr 10:16
    73%

    16And when all Israel saw that the king would not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, What part have we in David? And we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to your tents, O Israel; and now, David, see to your own house. So all Israel went to their tents.

  • 1 Sam 30:22-24
    3 verses
    72%

    22Then all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those that went with David, answered and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them any of the spoil that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away, and depart.

    23Then said David, You shall not do so, my brethren, with what the LORD has given us, who has preserved us, and delivered the company that came against us into our hand.

    24For who will listen to you in this matter? But as his part is that goes down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarries by the supplies: they shall share alike.

  • 2 Sam 20:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13Once he was removed from the road, all the people continued after Joab, pursuing Sheba the son of Bichri.

    14Sheba passed through all the tribes of Israel to Abel and to Bethmaachah, and all the Berites gathered together and followed him.

  • 1 Kgs 12:16
    72%

    16So when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, O Israel! Now see to your own house, David. So Israel departed to their tents.

  • 1 Sam 25:17
    71%

    17Now therefore know and consider what you will do, for harm is determined against our master and against all his household, for he is such a scoundrel that one cannot speak to him.

  • Judg 20:12-14
    3 verses
    71%

    12And the tribes of Israel sent men throughout all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you?

    13Now therefore deliver up the men, the worthless fellows, who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and remove evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not listen to their brothers, the children of Israel.

    14But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

  • 2 Sam 19:43
    70%

    43And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than you; why then did you despise us, that our advice was not first in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

  • 2 Sam 16:7
    69%

    7And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, you bloody man, and you man of Belial:

  • 2 Sam 20:10-11
    2 verses
    69%

    10But Amasa did not notice the sword in Joab’s hand, so Joab struck him in the stomach, spilling his intestines to the ground. He did not strike him again, and Amasa died. Joab and his brother Abishai then pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.

    11And one of Joab's men stood by Amasa and said, Whoever favors Joab and whoever is for David, let him follow Joab.

  • 1 Sam 10:27
    69%

    27But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no gifts. But he held his peace.

  • Judg 20:8-10
    3 verses
    69%

    8And all the people arose as one, saying, None of us will go to his tent, nor will any of us turn into his house.

    9But now this is what we will do to Gibeah: we will go up by lot against it;

    10And we will take ten men out of every hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, a hundred out of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to bring food for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly they have committed in Israel.

  • 2 Chr 13:7
    69%

    7And there gathered to him worthless men, sons of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not resist them.

  • 2 Sam 2:15
    69%

    15Then there arose and went over by number twelve of Benjamin, belonging to Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.

  • 2 Sam 16:5
    68%

    5And when King David came to Bahurim, behold, there came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came.

  • Deut 13:13
    68%

    13Certain men, the children of Belial, have gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known;

  • 2 Sam 19:16-17
    2 verses
    68%

    16And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, who was of Bahurim, hurried and came down with the men of Judah to meet King David.

    17And there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went over the Jordan before the king.

  • 1 Sam 22:7
    68%

    7Then Saul said to his servants that stood about him, Hear now, you Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, and make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds;

  • Hos 5:8
    68%

    8Blow the horn in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Bethaven, after you, O Benjamin.

  • 1 Sam 9:1
    68%

    1Now there was a man from Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power.

  • 2 Sam 4:2
    68%

    2And Saul's son had two men who were captains of bands: the name of one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin).

  • 1 Chr 21:6
    67%

    6But he did not count Levi and Benjamin among them: for the king's word was detestable to Joab.

  • 1 Kgs 4:18
    67%

    18Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin;

  • 1 Kgs 2:8
    67%

    8And behold, you have with you Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse on the day I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by the Lord, saying, I will not put you to death with the sword.

  • Judg 20:39
    67%

    39And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, Surely they are struck down before us, as in the first battle.

  • 2 Sam 18:7
    66%

    7Where the people of Israel were defeated before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.

  • Judg 20:31
    66%

    31And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

  • 1 Sam 14:16
    66%

    16The watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked, and behold, the multitude melted away, and they went here and there.

  • 2 Sam 3:10
    66%

    10To transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba.

  • Judg 20:33
    66%

    33And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baaltamar; and the ambushers of Israel came forth out of their places, even out of the meadows of Gibeah.

  • Judg 21:25
    66%

    25In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.

  • 1 Chr 7:6
    66%

    6The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.

  • 2 Sam 19:9
    66%

    9And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved us out of the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he has fled out of the land for Absalom.

  • 2 Sam 3:19
    66%

    19And Abner also spoke in the ears of Benjamin. And Abner went to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and that seemed good to the whole house of Benjamin.

  • 2 Sam 15:10
    66%

    10But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall say, Absalom reigns in Hebron.

  • 1 Kgs 15:27
    66%

    27Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him, and Baasha struck him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines, for Nadab and all Israel were besieging Gibbethon.