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Matthew Henry Commentary on the Bible

2 Samuel 20 - Introduction

* Sheba's rebellion. (1-3) Amasa slain by Joab. (4-13) Sheba takes refuge in Abel. (14-22) David's officers. (23-26)

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See also 2 Samuel 20 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _SHEBA MAKES A PARTY IN ISRAEL: JOAB KILLS AMASA, AND AFTERWARDS BESIEGES THE CITY OF ABEL, WHITHER SHEBA HAD FLED. A WISE WOMAN TREATS WITH JOAB FROM THE WALL. THE HEAD OF SHEBA IS THROWN OUT TO JOAB...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PART FIVE DAVID'S LAST DAYS AND SONG 2 Samuel 20:1 to 2 Samuel 24:25 A DIGEST OF CHAPTER 20 2 Samuel 20:1-3 _Sheba's revolt._ Some of the Israelites still felt that David had usurpe

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:9 anguish (a-16) Others, 'bewilderment.'...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    XX. The angry altercation between the tribes led, according to the proverb (Proverbs 15:1), to fresh troubles. These foreboded greater disasters than had yet occurred, but were happily arrested in the...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO SECOND SAMUEL 20 This chapter gives an account of a new rebellion raised by Sheba, 2 Samuel 20:1; of David's shutting up his concubines unto the day of their death, whom Absalom had l...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _A.M. 2982. B.C. 1022._ A new rebellion raised by Sheba, 2 Samuel 20:1; 2 Samuel 20:2. David confines his ten concubines for life, 2 Samuel 20:3. Joab murders Amasa,...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 By occasion of the quarrell, Sheba maketh a party in Israel. 3 Dauids ten concubines are shut vp in perpetual prison. 4 Amasa made captaine ouer Iudah, is slaine by Ioab. 14 Ioab pursueth Sheba v...

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