2 Samuel 20:1-5 ▼

1 A good-for-nothing man by the name of Sheba, Bichri's son, from the tribe of Benjamin happened to be at Gilgal. He blew a ram's horn [to announce], |We have no share in David's kingdom. We won't receive an inheritance from Jesse's son. Everyone to his own tent, Israel!|

2 So all the people of Israel left David to follow Sheba, Bichri's son. But the people of Judah remained loyal to their king [on his way] from the Jordan River to Jerusalem.

3 When David came to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to look after the palace and put them in a house under guard. He provided for them but no longer slept with them. So they lived like widows in confinement until they died.

4 The king told Amasa, |Call the people of Judah together for me, and in three days be here yourself.|

5 Amasa went to call Judah together, but he took longer to do it than David had given him.