2 Samuel 20:2

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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.

Cross References

2 Samuel 19:15

The king came back to the Jordan River, and the people of Judah came to Gilgal to meet the king and bring him across the Jordan River.

2 Samuel 20:1

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 Samuel 20:21

That isn’t the case. A man from the mountains of Ephraim by the name of Sheba, son of Bichri, has rebelled against King David. Give him to me, and I’ll withdraw from the city.” “That’s fine,” the woman told Joab. “His head will be thrown to you from the wall.”

2 Samuel 20:3

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.

1 Kings 12:20

When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent men to invite him to the assembly. They made him king of all Israel. Only the tribe of Judah remained loyal to David’s dynasty.

2 Chronicles 10:17

But Rehoboam ruled the Israelites who lived in the cities of Judah.

Psalm 62:9

Common people are only a whisper in the wind. Important people are only a delusion. When all of them are weighed on a scale, they amount to nothing. They are less than a whisper in the wind.

Proverbs 17:14

Starting a quarrel is ⌞like⌟ opening a floodgate, so stop before the argument gets out of control.

Acts 11:23

When he arrived there, he was pleased to see what God had done for them out of kindness. So he encouraged all the people to remain solidly committed to the Lord.