So Amasa went to summon Judah but he took longer than the set time that he had allotted him.
‘You are my kinsmen, my bone and my flesh! Why then should you be the last to bring back the king?’
Then David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom. So take your lord’s servants and pursue him lest he find for himself fortified cities and escape from our sight.”
So he waited seven days—the time set by Samuel—but Samuel had not come to Gilgal so the people began to scatter from him.
It came to pass in the morning that Jonathan went out to the field at the time appointed with David, and a little lad was with him.