Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
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CHAP. XX.
Seba's rebellion. Amasa is
slain by Joab, Abela is
besieged; but upon the citizens
casting over the wall
the head of Seba, Joab
departeth with his army.
1 And there happened to
be there a man of Belial,
whose name was Seba, the
son of Bochri, a man of Jemini:
and he sounded the
trumpet, and said: We have
no part in David, nor inheritance
in the son of Isai: Return
to thy dwellings O Israel.
2 And all Israel departed
from David, and followed Seba
the son of Bochri: But the
men of Juda stuck to their
king from the Jordan unto Jerusalem.
3 And when the king was
come into his house at Jerusalem,
he took the ten women
his concubines, whom he had
left to keep the house, and
put them in ward, allowing
them provisions: but went not
in unto them, so they were
shut up unto the day of their
death living in widowhood.
4 And the king said to Amasa:
Assemble to me all the
men of Juda against the third
day, and be thou here.
5 So Amasa went to assemble
the men of Juda, but he
tarried beyond the set time
which the king had appointed
him.
6 And David said to Abisai:
Now will Seba the son
of Bochri do us more harm
than did Absalom: take thou
therefore the servants of thy
lord, and pursue after him,
lest he find fenced cities, and
escape us.
7 So Joab's men went
out with him, and the Cerethi
and the Phelethi: and all the
valiant men went out of Jerusalem
to pursue after Seba
the son of Bochri.
8 And when they were at
the great stone, which is in
Gabaon, Amasa came and met
them. And Joab had on a
close coat of equal length with
his habit, and over it was
girded with a sword hanging
down to his flank, in a scabbard
made in such manner as
to come out with the least motion
and strike.
9 And Joab said to Amasa:
God save thee my brother.
And he took Amasa by the
chin with his right hand to
kiss him.
10 But Amasa did not take
notice of the sword, which
Joab had, and he struck him
in the side, and shed out his
bowels to the ground, and gave
him not a second wound, and
he died. And Joab, and Abisai
his brother pursued after
Seba the son of Bochri.
11 In the mean time some
men of Joab's company stopping
-- --
at the dead body of Amasa,
said: Behold he that
would have been in Joab's
stead the companion of David.
12 And Amasa embrewed
with blood, lay in the midst
of the way. A certain man
saw this that all the people
stood still to look upon him,
so he removed Amasa out of
the high-way into the field,
and covered him with a garment,
that they who passed
might not stop on his account.
13 And when he was removed
out of the way, all
the people went on following
Joab to pursue after Seba the
son of Bochri.
14 Now he had passed
through all the tribes of Israel
unto note Abela, and Bethmaacha:
and all the chosen men
were gathered together unto
him.
15 And they came, and
besieged him in Abela, and in
Bethmaacha, and they cast up
works round the city, and the
city was besieged: and all the
people, that were with Joab,
laboured to throw down the
walls.
16 And a wife woman cried
out from the city: Hear,
hear and say to Joab: Come
near hither, and I will speak
with thee.
17 And when he was come
near to her, she said to him:
Art thou Joab? And he
answered: I am. And she
spoke thus to him: Hear the
words of thy handmaid. He
answered: I do hear.
18 And she again said:
A saying was used of old as a
proverb: They that inquire,
let them inquire in Abela:
and so they made an end.
19 Am not I she that answer
truth in Israel, and thou
seekest to destroy the city, and
to overthrow a mother in Israel?
Why wilt thou throw
down the inheritance of the
Lord?
20 And Joab answering,
said: God forbid, God forbid
that I should, I do not
throw down, nor destroy.
21 The matter is not so,
but a man of mount Ephraim,
Seba the son of Bochri
by name, hath lifted up
his hand against king David:
deliver him only, and we
will depart from the city.
And the woman said to Joab:
Behold his head shall be
thrown to thee from the wall.
22 So she went to all the
people, and spoke to them
wisely: and they cut off the
head of Seba the son of Bochri
and cast it out to Joab.
And he sounded the trumpet,
and they departed from the city,
every one to their home:
-- --
and Joab returned to Jerusalem
to the king.
23 So Joab was over all
the army of Israel: and Banaias
the son of Joiada was
over the Cerethites and Phelethites.
24 But Aduram over the
tributes: and Josaphat the son
of Ahilud was recorder.
25 And Siva was scribe:
and Sadoc and Abiathar, priests.
26 And Ira the Jairite was
the priest of David.
Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
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