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.

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