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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 ...
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 ).
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.
A man named Sheba revolts against David. David orders Abishai to pursue Sheba. Joab joins the expedition, having treacherously put Amasa to death. Joab lays siege to Abel Beth-maachah and townspeople cut off Sheba's head and throw it over the wall to Joab.
Aside from the two geographic lists quoted above in relation to the conquest of the town by the Arameans and the Assyrians, the site is mentioned one other time in the Bible: 2 Samuel 20:14–22, which relates a call for revolt against David by a Benjaminite named Sheba ben Bichri. Sheba fled to Abel Beth Maacah, pursued by Joab and his
According to 2 Samuel, the Battle of the Wood of Ephraim was a military conflict between the rebel forces of the formerly exiled Israelite prince Absalom against the royal forces of his father King David during a short-lived revolt. [1] [better source needed] Scholarly opinion is divided as to the historicity of the events in the Books of Samuel.
Absalom is finally defeated and dies in the Battle of the Wood of Ephraim, and David mourns him (2 Samuel 15–19). Sheba son of Bichri revolts, but is ultimately beheaded (2 Samuel 20). In 2 Samuel 21, David has seven of Sauls sons and grandsons killed, including "the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul", though he spares Sauls grandson ...