1 Now a troublemaker named Sheba son of Bikri, a Benjaminite, happened to be there. He sounded the trumpet and shouted,‘We have no share in David,no part in Jesse’s son!Every man to his tent, Israel!’
2 So all the men of Israel deserted David to follow Sheba son of Bikri. But the men of Judah stayed by their king all the way from the Jordan to Jerusalem.
3 When David returned to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to take care of the palace and put them in a house under guard. He provided for them but had no sexual relations with them. They were kept in confinement till 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 But when Amasa went to summon Judah, he took longer than the time the king had set for him.