2 Samuel 20:21

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

That is not the case. There is a man named Sheba son of Bichri, from the hill country of Ephraim, who has rebelled against King David. Deliver this one man, and I will withdraw from the city.’ The woman replied to Joab, ‘Watch! His head will be thrown over the wall to you.’

Cross References

Jeremiah 50:19

I will return Israel to his grazing land, and he will feed on Carmel and Bashan; he will be satisfied in the hill country of Ephraim and of Gilead.

Jeremiah 4:15

For a voice announces from Dan, proclaiming malice from Mount Ephraim.

2 Kings 10:7

When the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons and slaughtered all seventy, put their heads in baskets, and sent them to Jehu at Jezreel.

2 Kings 5:22

Gehazi said, ‘It’s all right.  My master has sent me to say, “I have just now discovered that two young men from the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them thirty-five kilograms  of silver and two sets of clothing.” ’

2 Samuel 23:18

Abishai, Joab’s brother and son of Zeruiah,  was leader of the Three.  He wielded his spear against three hundred men and killed them, gaining a reputation among the Three.

2 Samuel 20:1

Now a wicked man, a Benjaminite named Sheba son of Bichri, happened to be there. He blew the ram’s horn and shouted: We have no portion in David, no inheritance in Jesse’s son. Each man to his tent,  Israel!

1 Samuel 26:9

But David said to Abishai, ‘Don’t destroy him, for who can lift a hand against the Lord’s anointed and be innocent? ’

1 Samuel 24:6

He said to his men, ‘As the Lord is my witness, I would never do such a thing to my lord, the Lord’s anointed.  I will never lift my hand against him, since he is the Lord’s anointed.’

Judges 7:24

Gideon sent messengers throughout the hill country of Ephraim with this message: ‘Come down to intercept the Midianites and take control of the watercourses ahead of them as far as Beth-barah and the Jordan.’ So all the men of Ephraim  were called out, and they took control of the watercourses as far as Beth-barah and the Jordan.

Judges 2:9

They buried him in the territory of his inheritance, in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim,  north of Mount Gaash.

Joshua 24:33

And Eleazar son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah,  which had been given to his son Phinehas  in the hill country of Ephraim.

2 Samuel 20:2

So all the men of Israel deserted David and followed Sheba son of Bichri, but the men of Judah from the Jordan all the way to Jerusalem remained loyal to their king.

2 Samuel 20:20

Joab protested: ‘Never! I would never devour or demolish!

1 Kings 11:26

Now Solomon’s servant,  Jeroboam son of Nebat, was an Ephraimite from Zeredah. His widowed mother’s name was Zeruah. Jeroboam rebelled  against Solomon,

Judges 9:55

When the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they all went home.