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2 Samuel 20:4

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

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2 Samuel 20:4 in other translations

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

2 Samuel 20:4 · American Standard Version

2 Samuel 20:4 in context

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 4Then the king said to Amasa, “Call me the men of Judah together within three days, and be here present.”
  4. 5So Amasa went to call the men of Judah together; but he stayed longer than the set time which he had appointed him.
  5. 6David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom did. Take your lord’s servants, and pursue after him, lest he get himself fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.”