1 It happened that a troublemaker named Sheba son of Bicri from the tribe of Benjamin was there. He blew the trumpet and said:“We have no share in David!We have no part in the son of Jesse!People of Israel, let’s go home!”
2 So all the Israelites left David and followed Sheba son of Bicri. But the people of Judah stayed with their king all the way from the Jordan River to Jerusalem.
3 David came back to his palace in Jerusalem. He had left ten of his slave women there to take care of the palace. Now he put them in a locked house. He gave them food, but he did not have sexual relations with them. So they lived like widows until they died.
4 The king said to Amasa, “Tell the men of Judah to meet with me in three days, and you must also be here.”
5 So Amasa went to call the men of Judah together, but he took more time than the king had said.