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All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is a close relative to us: why then are you angry for this matter? have we eaten at all at the king's cost? or has he given us any gift?

הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ (הַ) ha. “the”הַדָּבָ֖ר (הַ) ha. “the”הַזֶּ֑ה (הַ) ha. “<the>”הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ (הַ) ha. “the”

So all the men of Israel went up from following David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah joined with their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.

הַיַּרְדֵּ֖ן (הַ) hai. “the”

David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in custody, and provided them with sustenance, but didn't go in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood.

הַמֶּ֡לֶךְ (הַ) ha. “the”הַבַּ֜יִת (הַ) ha. “the”

Then said the king to Amasa, Call me the men of Judah together within three days, and be here present.

הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ (הַ) ha. “the”

So Amasa went to call [supplied: the men of] Judah together; but he stayed longer than the set time which he had appointed him.

הַמּוֹעֵ֖ד (הַ) ha. “the”

There went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men; and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

וְהַכְּרֵתִ֥י (הַ) ha. “the”וְהַפְּלֵתִ֖י (הַ) ha. “the”הַגִּבֹּרִ֑ים (הַ) ha. “the”

When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Joab was girded with his apparel of war that he had put on, and thereon was a sash with a sword fastened on his loins in the sheath of it; and as he went forth it fell out.

הָאֶ֤בֶן (הָ) ha. “the”הַגְּדוֹלָה֙ (הַ) ha. “<the>”

But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he struck him therewith in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn't strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.

הַחֹ֜מֶשׁ (הַ) ha. “the”

Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the midst of the highway. When the man saw that all the people stood still, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a garment over him, when he saw that everyone who came by him stood still.

הַֽמְסִלָּ֑ה (הַֽ) ha. “the”הָאִ֜ישׁ (הָ) ha. “the”הָעָ֗ם (הָ) ha. “the”הַֽמְסִלָּ֤ה (הַֽ) ha “the”הַשָּׂדֶה֙ (הַ) ha. “the”הַבָּ֥א (הַ) ha. “who”

When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

הַֽמְסִלָּ֑ה (הַֽ) ha “the”

He went through all the tribes of Israel to Abel, and to Beth Maacah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and went also after him.

הַבֵּרִ֑ים (הַ) ha. “the”

They came and besieged him in Abel of Beth Maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and all the people who were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.

הַֽמַּעֲכָ֔ה (הַֽ) ha. “<the>”הָעִ֔יר (הָ) ha. “the”הָעָם֙ (הָ) ha. “the”הַחוֹמָֽה׃ (הַ) ha. “the”

Then cried a wise woman out of the city, "Hear, hear! Please say to Joab, 'Come near here, that I may speak with you.'"

הָעִ֑יר (הָ) ha. “the”

He came near to her; and the woman said, Are you Joab? He answered, I am. Then she said to him, Hear the words of your handmaid. He answered, I do hear.

הָאִשָּׁ֛ה (הָ) ha. “the”

The matter is not so: but a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against the king, even against David; deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. The woman said to Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall.

הַדָּבָ֗ר (הַ) ha. “the”הָעִ֑יר (הָ) ha. “the”הָֽאִשָּׁה֙ (הָֽ) ha. “the”הַחוֹמָֽה׃ (הַ) ha. “the”

Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. They cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. He blew the trumpet, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.

הָאִשָּׁ֨ה (הָ) ha. “the”הָעָ֜ם (הָ) ha. “the”הָעִ֖יר (הָ) ha. “the”הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ (הַ) ha. “the”

Now Joab was over all the host of Israel; and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites;

הַצָּבָ֖א (הַ) ha. “the”הַכְּרֵתִ֖י (הַ) ha. “the”הַפְּלֵתִֽי׃ (הַ) ha. “the”

and Adoram was over the men subject to forced labor; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder;

הַמַּ֑ס (הַ) ha. “the”הַמַּזְכִּֽיר׃ (הַ) ha. “[was] the”

and also Ira the Jairite was chief minister to David.

הַיָּ֣אִרִ֔י (הַ) hai. “the”

There was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites.

הַדָּמִ֔ים (הַ) ha. “<the>”הַגִּבְעֹנִֽים׃ (הַ) ha. “the”

The king called the Gibeonites, and said to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn to them: and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah);

הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ (הַ) ha. “the”וְהַגִּבְעֹנִ֞ים (הַ) ha. “the”הָאֱמֹרִ֔י (הָ) ha. “the”

and David said to the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? And with what shall I make atonement, that you may bless the inheritance of Yahweh?

הַגִּבְעֹנִ֔ים (הַ) ha. “the”

The Gibeonites said to him, It is no matter of silver or gold between us and Saul, or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel. He said, What you shall say, that will I do for you.

הַגִּבְעֹנִ֗ים (הַ) ha. “the”

They said to the king, The man who consumed us, and who devised against us, [supplied: that] we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,

הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ (הַ) ha. “the”הָאִישׁ֙ (הָ) ha. “the”

let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang them up to Yahweh in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of Yahweh. The king said, I will give them.

הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ (הַ) ha. “the”