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2 Samuel 20:5
2 Samuel 20:5 is verse 5 of 2 Samuel chapter 20, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
So Amasa went to summon Judah, but he took longer than the time allotted him.
King James Version
So Amasa went to assemble the men of Judah: but he tarried longer than the set time which he had appointed him.
World English Bible
So Amasa went to call the men of Judah together, but he stayed longer than the set time which had been appointed to him.
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2 Samuel 20:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible
3 When David returned to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace, and he placed them in a house under guard. He provided for them, but he no longer slept with them. They were confined until the day of their death, living as widows.
4 Then the king said to Amasa, “Summon the men of Judah to come to me within three days, and be here yourself.”
5 So Amasa went to summon Judah, but he took longer than the time allotted him.
6 And David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom. Take your lord’s servants and pursue him, or he will find fortified cities and elude us.”
7 So Joab’s men, along with the Cherethites, the Pelethites, and all the mighty men, marched out of Jerusalem in pursuit of Sheba son of Bichri.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
2 Samuel 19:13And say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my flesh and blood? May God punish me, and ever so severely, if from this time you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”
1 Samuel 13:8And Saul waited seven days for the time appointed by Samuel, but Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the troops began to desert Saul.