Teks -- 2 Samuel 20:1-2 (NET)

Sheba’s Rebellion

20:1 Now a wicked man named Sheba son of Bicri, a Benjaminite, happened to be there. He blew the trumpet and said, “We have no share in David; we have no inheritance in this son of Jesse! Every man go home, O Israel!” 20:2 So all the men of Israel deserted David and followed Sheba son of Bicri. But the men of Judah stuck by their king all the way from the Jordan River to Jerusalem.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: 2Sa 20:1 - Happened

His presence was casual in itself, though ordered by God's providence.

Wesley: 2Sa 20:1 - No part

The tribe of Judah have monopolized the king to themselves, and will not allow us any share in him; let them therefore enjoy him alone, and let us seek out a new king.

Wesley: 2Sa 20:1 - The son of Jesse

An expression of contempt, implying that he was no more to be owned as their king, but as a private person, as the son of Jesse.

Wesley: 2Sa 20:1 - To his tents

Let us all desist from this unthankful office, of bringing the king back, and go each to our homes, that we may consider, and then meet together to chuse a new king.

Wesley: 2Sa 20:2 - Every man

That is, the generality of those Israelites who were present.

JFB: 2Sa 20:1 - Sheba . . . a Benjamite

Though nothing is known of this man, he must have been a person of considerable power and influence, before he could have raised so sudden and extensive a sedition. He belonged to the tribe of Benjamin, where the adherents of Saul's dynasty were still numerous; and perceiving the strong disgust of the other tribes with the part assumed by Judah in the restoration, his ill-designing heart resolved to turn it to the overthrow of David's authority in Israel.

JFB: 2Sa 20:1 - every man to his tents

This proverbial expression may have had its foundation in the fact, that many of the Israelite peasantry adhered to the custom of the patriarchs who tilled land, and yet lived in tents, as Syrian peasants often do still. This was the usual watchword of national insurrection, and from the actual temper of the people, it was followed by effects beyond what he probably anticipated.

JFB: 2Sa 20:2 - from Jordan even to Jerusalem

The quarrel had broken out shortly after the crossing of the Jordan, between Judah and the other tribes, who withdrew; so that Judah was left nearly alone to conduct the king to the metropolis.

Clarke: 2Sa 20:1 - Sheba, the son of Bichri

Sheba, the son of Bichri - As this man was a Benjamite, he probably belonged to the family of Saul; and he seems to have had considerable influence in Israel to raise such an insurrection: but we know nothing farther of him than what is related in this place

Clarke: 2Sa 20:1 - We have no part in David

We have no part in David - We of Israel, we of the ten tribes, are under no obligation to the house of David. Leave him, and let every man fall into the ranks under his own leader.

TSK: 2Sa 20:1 - And there // a man // he blew // We have

And there : 2Sa 19:41-43; Psa 34:19

a man : 2Sa 23:6; Deu 13:13; Jdg 19:22; 1Sa 2:12, 1Sa 30:22; Psa 17:13; Pro 26:21; Hab 1:12, Hab 1:13

he blew : 2Sa 15:10; Jdg 3:27; Pro 24:21, Pro 24:22, Pro 25:8

We have : 2Sa 19:43; 1Ki 12:16; 2Ch 10:6; Luk 19:14, Luk 19:27

TSK: 2Sa 20:2 - every man // the men // from Jordan

every man : 2Sa 19:41; Psa 62:9, Psa 118:8-10; Pro 17:14

the men : Joh 6:66-68; Act 11:23

from Jordan : 2Sa 19:15, 2Sa 19:40, 2Sa 19:41; 2Ch 10:17

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: 2Sa 20:1 - There happened to be there // Man of Belial // Benjamite // We have no part in David // The son of Jesse // Every man to his tents

There happened to be there his presence was casual in itself, though certain, and ordered by God’ s providence.

Man of Belial a lawless person, one that attempted to shake off the yoke of civil authority. See Deu 13:13 .

Benjamite aggrieved at the translation of the kingdom from Saul and that tribe to David.

We have no part in David: the tribe of Judah have monopolized the king to themselves, and will not allow us any share in him; let them therefore enjoy him alone, and let us seek out a new king.

The son of Jesse an expression of contempt, implying their rejection of him, that he was no more to be owned as their king, but as a private person, as the son of Jesse.

Every man to his tents let us all desist from this unthankful office of bringing the king back, and go each to our homes, that we may consider, and then meet together to choose a new king.

Poole: 2Sa 20:2 - Every man of Israel

Every man of Israel i.e. the generality of those Israelites who were present.

Haydock: 2Sa 20:1 - Belial // Jemini // Part

Belial. Septuagint, "lawless." ---

Jemini. The tribe of Benjamin continued to be rather disaffected. (Haydock) ---

Part. This was an usual mode of expressing a disunion, 3 Kings xii. 16., and Acts viii. 21. (Calmet) ---

See chap. xix. 43. (Haydock) Seba was perhaps a kinsman of Saul, (Menochius) in come command. (Calmet)

Haydock: 2Sa 20:2 - Jordan

Jordan, near which the contest had happened. Some chosen troops attended Seba to the north, while the rest went home. (Haydock)

Gill: 2Sa 20:1 - And there happened to be a man of Belial // whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite // and he blew a trumpet // and said, we have no part in David // neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse // every man to his tent, O Israel

And there happened to be a man of Belial,.... A wicked man, as the Targum, a lawless, yokeless man, that had cast off the yoke of the law, and was without it, as Belial is by some interpreted; or one unprofitable and useless, yea, noxious and pernicious: this man, though, with respect to second causes, may be said to be there by chance, yet it was so ordered by the providence of God that he should be present at this time for the further fulfilment of the threatening to David, that the sword should not depart from his house:

whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite; one perhaps that had been in the rebellion of Absalom, and had a grudge against David for the removal of the kingdom out of that tribe:

and he blew a trumpet; which was done to draw off the Israelites from David, and gather a party to himself:

and said, we have no part in David; so he interpreted what the men of Judah said, because they claimed kindred to David, the rest of the Israelites had no interest in him; thus they, who just before said they had ten parts in him, now had none at all:

neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse; so he calls David by way of contempt, as if he was no king, but a private person, and a descendant from a mean family:

every man to his tent, O Israel; there to consider what to do, and whom to choose to be their king, and let Judah take David for their king, and enjoy him alone, since they had so slighted, and dealt so injuriously and roughly with the rest of the tribes.

Gill: 2Sa 20:2 - 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 to Jerusalem

So every man of Israel went up from after David,.... Those that met him on the road departed from him, and went no further with him:

and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; and made him their captain, who was the author of their mutiny and sedition:

but the men of Judah clave unto their king, from Jordan to Jerusalem: never left him, after they had conducted him over Jordan, until they had brought him safely to Jerusalem.