King James Version
2 Samuel 20:4 in the King James Version says “Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Judah within three days, and be thou here present. Assemble: Heb. Ca...” — study this verse from 2 Samuel chapter 20 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Judah within three days, and be thou here present. Assemble: Heb. Call”
2 Samuel 20:4 · KJV
So every man of Israel went up from after David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah clave unto their king, from Jordan even to Jerusalem.
And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood. ward: Heb. an house of ward shut: Heb. bound living: Heb. in widowhood of life
Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Judah within three days, and be thou here present. Assemble: Heb. Call
So Amasa went to assemble the men of Judah: but he tarried longer than the set time which he had appointed him. Assemble: Heb. Call
And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom: take thou thy lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape us. escape: Heb. deliver himself from our eyes
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Assemble”
H2199to shriek (from anguish or danger); by analogy, (as a herald) to announce or convene publicly
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“me the men”
H376a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
“of Judah”
H3063jehudah (or judah), the name of five israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory
“days”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
“and be thou here present”
H5975to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
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