2 Samuel 20:4

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 17:25 : 25 Absalom 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 Sam 19:13 : 13 Say to Amasa, 'Aren't you my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren't captain of the army before me continually in the room of Joab.'"
  • 1 Chr 2:17 : 17 Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

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  • 2 Sam 20:5
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    5So Amasa went to call [the men of] Judah together; but he stayed longer than the set time which he had appointed him.

  • 2 Sam 19:11-15
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    11King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, "Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, 'Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house? Since the speech of all Israel has come to the king, to return him to his house.

    12You are my brothers, you are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?'

    13Say to Amasa, 'Aren't you my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren't captain of the army before me continually in the room of Joab.'"

    14He bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as [the heart of] one man; so that they sent to the king, saying, "Return, you and all your servants."

    15So the king returned, and came to the Jordan. Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan.

  • 2 Sam 20:8-9
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    8When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Joab was clothed in his apparel of war that he had put on, and on it was a sash with a sword fastened on his waist in its sheath; and as he went forth it fell out.

    9Joab said to Amasa, "Is it well with you, my brother?" Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.

  • 2 Sam 20:11-12
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    11There stood by him one of Joab's young men, and said, "He who favors Joab, and he who is for David, let him follow Joab!"

    12Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the midst of the highway. 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 everyone who came by him stood still.

  • 1 Chr 21:4-5
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    4Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.

    5Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew sword: and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew sword.

  • 2 Sam 17:24-25
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    24Then David came to Mahanaim. Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

    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 Sam 18:30
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    30The king said, "Turn aside, and stand here." He turned aside, and stood still.

  • 2 Sam 14:21
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    21The king said to Joab, "Behold now, I have done this thing. Go therefore, bring the young man Absalom back."

  • 2 Sam 3:20
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    20So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. David made Abner and the men who were with him a feast.

  • 2 Sam 20:2-3
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    2So all the men of Israel went up from following David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah joined with their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.

    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.

  • 2 Chr 10:12
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    12So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king asked, saying, "Come to me again the third day."

  • 1 Kgs 1:32
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    32King David said, "Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada." They came before the king.

  • 1 Kgs 12:12
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    12So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king asked, saying, "Come to me again the third day."

  • Ezek 21:20
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    20You shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.

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    3Go in to the king, and speak like this to him." So Joab put the words in her mouth.

  • 1 Chr 19:8-9
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    8When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army of the mighty men.

    9The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the gate of the city: and the kings who had come were by themselves in the field.

  • 2 Sam 14:23
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    23So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

  • 1 Kgs 1:20
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    20You, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, that you should tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.

  • 1 Kgs 1:28
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    28Then king David answered, "Call to me Bathsheba." She came into the king's presence, and stood before the king.

  • Judg 20:2
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    2The chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen who drew sword.

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    1The king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.

  • 2 Sam 3:24
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    24Then Joab came to the king, and said, "What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you. Why is it that you have sent him away, and he is quite gone?

  • 2 Chr 34:29
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    29Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

  • 2 Sam 3:10
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    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."

  • 2 Chr 10:5
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    5He said to them, "Come again to me after three days." The people departed.

  • 2 Sam 15:20
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    20Whereas you came but yesterday, should I this day make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you."

  • 2 Sam 18:4
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    4The king said to them, "I will do what seems best to you." The king stood beside the gate, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.

  • 1 Chr 28:1
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    1David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies who served the king by division, and the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, and the rulers over all the substance and possessions of the king and of his sons, with the officers, and the mighty men, even all the mighty men of valor, to Jerusalem.

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    19When you have stayed three days, you shall go down quickly, and come to the place where you did hide yourself when the business was in hand, and shall remain by the stone Ezel.

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    4The men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. They told David, saying, "The men of Jabesh Gilead were those who buried Saul."

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