2 Samuel 20:5

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 13:8 : 8 He stayed seven days, according to the set time that Samuel [had appointed]: but Samuel didn't come to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.
  • 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.'"

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  • 2 Sam 20:4
    87%

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

  • 2 Sam 20:6-13
    8 verses
    75%

    6 David said to Abishai, "Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than did Absalom. Take your lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get himself fortified cities, and escape out of our sight."

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

    8 When 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.

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

    10 But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand. So he struck him with it in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn't strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.

    11 There 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!"

    12 Amasa 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.

    13 When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

  • 2 Sam 19:11-13
    3 verses
    71%

    11 King 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.

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

    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.'"

  • 2 Sam 17:24-26
    3 verses
    71%

    24 Then David came to Mahanaim. Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

    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.

    26 Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead.

  • 2 Sam 19:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    15 So 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.

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

  • 2 Sam 20:2
    69%

    2 So 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.

  • 1 Chr 20:1
    69%

    1 It happened, at the time of the return of the year, at the time when kings go out [to battle], that Joab led forth the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. Joab struck Rabbah, and overthrew it.

  • 1 Chr 21:4
    68%

    4 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Sam 3:20
    68%

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

  • 1 Chr 19:8
    68%

    8 When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army of the mighty men.

  • 2 Sam 13:27
    68%

    27 But Absalom pressed him, and he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him.

  • 2 Sam 11:1
    67%

    1 It happened, at the return of the year, at the time when kings go out [to battle], that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem.

  • 2 Sam 14:28-29
    2 verses
    67%

    28 Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem; and he didn't see the king's face.

    29 Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king; but he would not come to him: and he sent again a second time, but he would not come.

  • 2 Sam 15:1-2
    2 verses
    67%

    1 It happened after this, that Absalom prepared him a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him.

    2 Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. It was so, that when any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, "What city are you from?" He said, "Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel."

  • 2 Sam 2:30
    67%

    30 Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of David's servants nineteen men and Asahel.

  • 2 Sam 15:28
    67%

    28 Behold, I will stay at the fords of the wilderness, until word comes from you to inform me."

  • 2 Sam 14:23
    67%

    23 So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

  • 1 Chr 19:5
    67%

    5 Then there went certain persons, and told David how the men were served. He sent to meet them; for the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, "Stay at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return."

  • Ezek 21:20
    67%

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

  • 2 Sam 18:30
    67%

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

  • 1 Sam 13:8
    66%

    8 He stayed seven days, according to the set time that Samuel [had appointed]: but Samuel didn't come to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.

  • 2 Chr 25:10
    66%

    10 Then Amaziah separated them, [to wit], the army that had come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again: therefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in fierce anger.

  • 2 Sam 10:5
    66%

    5 When they told it to David, he sent to meet them; for the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, "Wait at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return."

  • Judg 20:14
    66%

    14 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 3:24
    66%

    24 Then 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?

  • 1 Kgs 2:32
    66%

    32 Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn't know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 20:40
    66%

    40 As your servant was busy here and there, he was gone." The king of Israel said to him, "So your judgment shall be; yourself have decided it."

  • 2 Sam 15:6
    66%

    6 Absalom did this sort of thing to all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

  • 1 Sam 30:21
    66%

    21 David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom also they had made to stay at the brook Besor; and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people who were with him. When David came near to the people, he greeted them.

  • 2 Sam 17:1
    66%

    1 Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.

  • 2 Sam 10:7
    66%

    7 When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army of the mighty men.

  • 2 Sam 15:13
    66%

    13 A messenger came to David, saying, "The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom."

  • 2 Sam 15:20
    66%

    20 Whereas 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 2:12
    66%

    12 Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.

  • 2 Sam 2:21
    66%

    21 Abner said to him, "Turn aside to your right hand or to your left, and grab one of the young men, and take his armor." But Asahel would not turn aside from following him.