The matter [is] not so,.... I am not come with the army against this city with any ill will to it, and with an intention to destroy it: the case is this,but a man of Mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name; for though he was by birth a Benjaminite, his dwelling was in Mount Ephraim in that tribe; unless there was a place of this name in the tribe of Benjamin, so called from any memorable event there, as the wood of Ephraim, 2Sa 18:6.
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2 Samuel 20:21
2 Samuel 20:21
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I. The rebel, when he had rambled over all the tribes of Israel, and
found them not so willing, upon second thoughts, to follow him, as they
had been upon a sudden…2 Samuel 20:212 Samuel 20:21 · Treasury of Scripture Knowledgea man: 2 Samuel 20:1; Judges 2:9, Judges 7:24; 2 Kings 5:22; Jeremiah 4:15, Jeremiah 50:19
by name: Heb. by his name
lifted: 2 Samuel 23:18; 1 Samuel 24:6, 1 Samuel 26:9
his head: 2 Samuel 17:2-3; 2 Kings 10:7;…