[1] And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every to his tents, O Israel. [2] 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. [3] 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 living in widowhood. [4] Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Judah within three days, and be thou here present. [5] So Amasa to assemble the men of Judah: but he tarried longer than the set time which he had appointed him. [6] 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. [7] And there went out after him Joab's 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.