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 didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, “What portion have we in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” So Israel departed to their tents.
• Deut 13:13certain base fellows have gone out from among you, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods,” which you have not known;
• 2 Chr 10:16When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, “What portion have we in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse! Every man to your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” So all Israel departed to their tents.
• 2 Sam 19:41–43Behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, “Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king, and his household, over the Jordan, and all David’s men with him?”
• 2 Chr 10:6King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me about how to answer these people?”
• Prov 26:21As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.
• 2 Sam 15:10But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall say, ‘Absalom is king in Hebron!’”
• Ps 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.
• Hab 1:12–13Aren’t you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.
• Luke 19:27But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’”
• Prov 25:8Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?
• 1 Sam 2:12Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know Yahweh.
• Luke 19:14But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’
• Judg 3:27When he had come, he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he led them.
• 1 Sam 30:22Then all the wicked men and base fellows, of those who went with David, answered and said, “Because they didn’t go with us, we will not give them anything of the plunder that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that he may lead them away, and depart.”
• 2 Sam 23:6But all the ungodly will be as thorns to be thrust away, because they can’t be taken with the hand,
• Prov 24:21–22My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious:
• Judg 19:22As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain base fellows, surrounded the house, beating at the door; and they spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, “Bring out the man who came into your house, that we can have sex with him!”
• Ps 17:13Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword;
• 1 Sam 22:7–8Saul said to his servants who stood around him, “Hear now, you Benjamites! Will the son of Jesse give everyone of you fields and vineyards? Will he make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds,

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