2 Samuel 20:1

A worthless man named Sheba sounded the trumpet and called Israel to abandon David. It matters because his rebellion exploited the tribal quarrel to fracture the kingdom anew.

Cross-references · 20

• 1 Kgs 12:16When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!” So the Israelites went home,
• Deut 13:13that wicked men have arisen from among you and have led the people of their city astray, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods” (which you have not known),
• 2 Chr 10:16When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!” So all the Israelites went home,
• 2 Sam 19:41–43Soon all the men of Israel came to the king and asked, “Why did our brothers, the men of Judah, take you away secretly and bring the king and his household across the Jordan, together with all of David’s men?”
• 2 Chr 10:6Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.
• Prov 26:21Like charcoal for embers and wood for fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.
• 2 Sam 15:10Then Absalom sent spies throughout the tribes of Israel with this message: “When you hear the sound of the horn, you are to say, ‘Absalom reigns in Hebron!’”
• Ps 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him from them all.
• Hab 1:12–13Are You not from everlasting, O LORD, my God, my Holy One? We will not die. O LORD, You have appointed them to execute judgment; O Rock, You have established them for correction.
• Luke 19:27And these enemies of mine who were unwilling for me to rule over them, bring them here and slay them in front of me.’”
• Prov 25:8do not bring hastily to court. Otherwise, what will you do in the end when your neighbor puts you to shame?
• 1 Sam 2:12Now the sons of Eli were wicked men; they had no regard for the LORD
• Luke 19:14But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’
• Judg 3:27On arriving in Seirah, he blew the ram’s horn throughout the hill country of Ephraim. The Israelites came down with him from the hills, and he became their leader.
• 1 Sam 30:22but all the wicked and worthless men among those who had gone with David said, “Because they did not go with us, we will not share with them the plunder we recovered, except for each man’s wife and children. They may take them and go.”
• 2 Sam 23:6But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.
• Prov 24:21–22My son, fear the LORD and the king, and do not associate with the rebellious.
• Judg 19:22While they were enjoying themselves, suddenly the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they said to the old man who owned the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house, so we can have relations with him!”
• Ps 17:13Arise, O LORD, confront them! Bring them to their knees; deliver me from the wicked by Your sword,
• 1 Sam 22:7–8Then Saul said to his servants, “Listen, men of Benjamin! Is the son of Jesse giving all of you fields and vineyards and making you commanders of thousands or hundreds?

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