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Sheba’s Rebellion

20 A worthless troublemaker named Sheba son of Bikri, a Benjaminite, was present. He blew the ram’s horn and said, “We have no share with David, and no inheritance with the son of Jesse. Every man to his own tent,[a] Israel!” So all the men of Israel deserted David and followed Sheba son of Bikri. But the men of Judah stuck with their king and accompanied him from the Jordan to Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 20:1 To his own tent is an idiom for to his own home. It is used regardless of the form of the dwelling. In many cases we could simply translate to his own home.