2 Samuel 20:2

_SO EVERY MAN OF ISRAEL WENT UP FROM AFTER DAVID, AND FOLLOWED SHEBA THE SON OF BICHRI: BUT THE MEN OF JUDAH CLAVE UNTO THEIR KING, FROM JORDAN EVEN TO JERUSALEM._ From Jordan even to Jerusalem. The quarrel had broken out shortly after the crossing of the Jordan, between Judah and the other tribes who withdrew, so that Judah was left nearly alone, to conduct the king to the metropolis. Thus, it happened that at a moment when there was the greatest need of harmony and union, there was the most imminent danger of a worse dismemberment than before, and of the rejection by the greater portion of Israel of a king in whose favour Yahweh had but recently given decisive testimony....

1-3 One trial arises after another for our good, till we reach the place where sin and sorrow are for ever done away. Angry disputers misunderstand or misconstrue one another's words; proud men will have every thing their own way, or wholly refuse their assistance. The favour of the many is not to be depended upon; and what have others to expect, when Hosanna to the Son of David was soon changed to Crucify him, crucify him?...

FROM JORDAN ... - The men of Israel only escorted David from Jordan to Gilgal, and there left him; but the men of Judah in a body went with him all the way to Jerusalem....

EXPOSITION 2 SAMUEL 20:1 THERE HAPPENED TO BE THERE A MAN OF BELIAL. The fierce words of the men of Judah led to evil results. It was a time when all wise and thoughtful persons would have laboured for peace, and tried to soothe and appease the angry passions fomented by the late war. Instead of this, the men of Judah irritated the Israelites with insult and contumely, and the day, intended as one of rejoicing and of the restoration of David to his throne by common consent, saw the rebellion break forth afresh. Among those who had taken part in the discussion with Judah was Sheba, a man of Belial, that is, a worthless fellow, but possibly possessed of rank and influence; for, according to many commentators, _ben-Bichri _does not mean THE SON OF BICHRI, but "a descendant of Becher," the second son of Benjamin ...

SO EVERY MAN OF ISRAEL WENT UP FROM AFTER DAVID,.... Those that met him on the road departed from him, and went no further with him: [AND] FOLLOWED SHEBA THE SON OF BICHRI; and made him their captain, who was the author of their mutiny and sedition: BUT THE MEN OF JUDAH CLAVE UNTO THEIR KING, FROM JORDAN TO JERUSALEM: never left him, after they had conducted him over Jordan, until they had brought him safely to Jerusalem....

10. THE REVOLT OF SHEBA CHAPTER 20 _ 1. Sheba's revolt (2 Samuel 20:1)_ 2. The ten concubines shut up (2 Samuel 20:3) 3. Amasa's failure (2 Samuel 20:4) 4. Joab and the death of Amasa (2 Samuel 20:7) 5. Joab, the wise woman and the death of Sheba (2 Samuel 20:14) 6. David's officials (2 Samuel 20:23) The final revolt in David's reign was headed by a wicked man, whose name was Sheba. Israe

1 SAMUEL 20. THE REVOLT OF SHEBA (J). 2 SAMUEL 20:1 F. The result of this altercation was a fresh rebellion under a Benjamite, Sheba ben Bichri. 2 SAMUEL 20:3. The members of the king's harem whom he had left in Jerusalem are condemned to pass the rest of their days in seclusion (_cf._ 2 Samuel 16:21). 2 SAMUEL 20:4. David bade his new commander-in-chief, Amasa, assemble the general levy of Judah by a given day; the day came, but Amasa and the army did not appear. A few days before Amasa had been in command of an army fighting against Judah, and the men of Judah might be slow to tru

_went up_ From Gilgal in the valley of the Jordan to the hill country of Ephraim....

V. DAVID'S LAST DAYS AND SONG, 2 Samuel 20:1 to 2 Samuel 24:25. 1. The Reorganization of the Kingdom, 2 Samuel 20:1-26. _Sheba's Revolt._ 2 Samuel 20:1-3 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. 2 So every man of Israel went up from after David, _and_ followed Sheba the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah clave unto their king, from Jordan even to Jerusalem. 3 And David came to

THE REBELLION OF SHEBA Sheba takes advantage of the jealousy of the men of Israel to begin a rebellion, which, but for the prompt action of Joab, might have resulted in a disruption between Israel and Judah. During this expedition Amasa is murdered by Joab. The chapter concludes with a list of David's officers. This chapter evidently continues the narrative of the concluding vv. of the preceding. During the period of the Judges, Ephraim had been the leading tribe and they could not brook to see their place taken by Judah. For the present their attempt failed, and the rule of Solomon was too strong for them to renew it. But on the accession of Rehoboam the old jealousy broke out again. This chapter ends the account which the editor took from the document he has been following since 2 Samuel 9. The list with which it concludes is similar to that at lihe close of the earlier document ...