1. Now a despicable man named Sheba, Bichri’s son, from Benjamin, was also there. He sounded the trumpet and said:"We don’t care about David!We have no stake in Jesse’s son!Go back to your homes, Israel!"
2. So all the Israelites left David to follow Bichri’s son Sheba. But all the people of Judah stayed close to their king from the Jordan River all the way to Jerusalem.
3. When David arrived at his palace in Jerusalem, the king took the ten secondary wives he had left to take care of the palace and put them in a house under guard. He provided for them, but he didn’t have sex with them. They were confined until the day they died, and lived like widows.
4. Then the king said to Amasa, "Call everyone in Judah here to me three days from now. You should be here too."