King James Version
2 Samuel 20:5 in the King James Version says “So Amasa went to assemble the men of Judah: but he tarried longer than the set time which he had appointed him. Assemble...” — study this verse from 2 Samuel chapter 20 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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”
2 Samuel 20:5 · KJV
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
And there went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men: and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“to 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)
“the men of Judah”
H3063jehudah (or judah), the name of five israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory
“but he tarried longer”
H309to loiter (i.e., be behind); by implication to procrastinate
“than the set time”
H4150properly, an appointment, i.e., a fixed time or season; specifically, a festival; conventionally a year; by implication, an assembly (as convened for
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“which he had appointed”
H3259to fix upon (by agreement or appointment); by implication, to meet (at a stated time), to summon (to trial), to direct (in a certain quarter or positi
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