Devine Scripture

2 Samuel 20:4

2 Samuel chapter 20 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.3And 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 ward, and provided them with sustenance, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.

v.4This passage

v.5So Amasa went to call the men of Judah together; but he tarried longer than the set time which he had appointed him.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 1 Chronicles 2:17

    And Abigail bare Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

  • 2 Samuel 17:25

    And Absalom set Amasa over the host instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man, whose name was Ithra the Israelite, that went in to Abigal the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.

  • 2 Samuel 19:13

    And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.