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Woodcut by Johann Christoph Weigel, 1695, depicting the events of 2 Samuel 20. In the top of the picture, Sheba's head is thrown down over the wall, while the corpse of Amasa lies in the foreground. Sheba was a son of Bichri, of the family of Becher, the son of Benjamin, and thus of the tribe of King Saul.
2 Samuel 20 is the twentieth chapter of the Second Book of Samuel in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible or the second part of Books of Samuel in the Hebrew Bible. [1] According to Jewish tradition the book was attributed to the prophet Samuel , with additions by the prophets Gad and Nathan , [ 2 ] but modern scholars view it as a ...
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So it was not difficult for Joab to also decide to murder Amasa (2 Sam 20:10, 1 Kgs 2:5,32). Joab's own justification for killing Amasa may have been because he believed Amasa to be conspiring with Sheba son of Bichri the Benjamite, due to Amasa's slowness to mobilize the army against Sheba's rebels ( 2 Sam 20:4,5 ).
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2 SAMUEL 20. A man named Sheba revolts against David. David orders Abishai to pursue Sheba. Joab joins the expedition, having treacherously put Amasa to death. Joab ...
In the top of the picture, the woman is throwing Sheba's head down to Joab. In the foreground lies Amasa, whose death is described in the first half of the chapter. The wise woman of Abel is an unnamed figure in the Hebrew Bible. [1] She appears in 2 Samuel 20, when Joab pursues the rebel Sheba to the city of Abel-beth-maachah.
In 2 Samuel, 16:5, Shimei is depicted as a Benjaminite from the same clan as Saul, while in 2 Samuel, 19:21, Shimei is depicted as first among the Tribe of Joseph. In 2 Samuel, 20:1, Sheba son of Bichri of the Tribe of Benjamin proclaims a rebellion against the House of David. In both cases, the two Benjaminites are instigators of conflict ...