2 Samuel 20:5 BSB — MannaFest

2 Samuel 20:5

So Amasa went to summon Judah, but he took longer than the time allotted him.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

So Amasa went to assemble the men of Judah: but he tarried longer than the set time which he had appointed him.

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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

He tarried - The cause of Amasa’s delay is not stated. It may have been the unwillingness of the men of Judah to place themselves under his orders, or it may have been caused by a wavering or hesitation in loyalty. This last is evidently insinuated in 2Sa 20:11, and no doubt this was the pretext, whether grounded in fact or not, by which Joab justified the murder of Amasa before David.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ	vai.Ye.lekh	and he went	H1980 →
עֲמָשָׂ֖א	'a.ma.Sa'	Amasa	H6021 →
לְהַזְעִ֣יק	le.haz.'Ik	to summon	H2199 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
יְהוּדָ֑ה	ye.hu.Dah	Judah	H3063 →
וַיּ֕וֹחֶר	vai.yi.cher	and he was delayed	H309 →
מִן־	min-	from	H4480 →
הַמּוֹעֵ֖ד	ha.mo.'Ed	the appointed time	H4150 →
אֲשֶׁ֥ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
יְעָדֽוֹ׃ ס	ye.'a.Do	he had appointed for him	H3259 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Samuel 13:8
And Saul waited seven days for the time appointed by Samuel, but Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the troops began to desert Saul.
leads to
- 1 Samuel 10:8
  And you shall go before me to Gilgal, and surely I will come to you to offer burnt offerings and to sacrifice peace offerings. Wait seven days until I come to you and show…
Through
2 Samuel 19:13
And say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my flesh and blood? May God punish me, and ever so severely, if from this time you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”
leads to
- 2 Samuel 17:25
  Absalom had appointed Amasa over the army in place of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra, the Ishmaelite who had married Abigail, the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah…
- 1 Kings 19:2
  So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “May the gods deal with me, and ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like the lives of those…
- Ruth 1:17
  Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD punish me, and ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me.”
- 2 Samuel 8:16
  Joab son of Zeruiah was over the army; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the recorder;
- 2 Samuel 3:29–30
  May it whirl over the heads of Joab and the entire house of his father, and may the house of Joab never be without one having a discharge or skin disease, or one who…