son

But Amasa tooke no heed to the sword that was in Ioabs hand: so hee smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and strake him not againe, and he died: so Ioab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the sonne of Bichri.

1611 marginal noteHebr. doubled not his stroke.

When he was remoued out of the high way, all the people went on after Ioab, to pursue after Sheba the sonne of Bichri.

The matter is not so: but a man of mount Ephraim (Sheba the sonne of Bichri by name) hath lift vp his hand against the king, euen against Dauid: deliuer him onely, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said vnto Ioab, Behold, his head shall be throwen to thee ouer the wall.

1611 marginal noteHeb. by his name.

Then the woman went vnto all the people in her wisedome, and they cut off the head of Sheba the sonne of Bichri, and cast it out to Ioab: and hee blew a trumpet, and they retired from the citie, euery man to his tent: & Ioab returned to Ierusalem vnto the king.

1611 marginal noteHeb. were scattered.

¶ Now Ioab was ouer all the hoste of Israel, and Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada was ouer the Cherethites, and ouer the Pelethites.

1611 marginal noteChap. 8.16.

And Adoram was ouer the tribute, and Iehoshaphat the sonne of Ahilud was Recorder.

1611 marginal noteOr, remembrancer

But the king spared Mephibosheth the sonne of Ionathan the sonne of Saul, because of the LORDs othe that was between them, betweene Dauid, and Ionathan the sonne of Saul.

1611 marginal note1.Sam. 18.3. and 20.8,42.

But the king tooke the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare vnto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth, and the fiue sonnes of Michal the daughter of Saul, whome she brought vp for Adriel the sonne of Barzillai the Meholathite.

1611 marginal noteOr, Michals sister.

1611 marginal noteHeb. bare to Adriel.

¶ And Dauid went and tooke the bones of Saul, and the bones of Ionathan his sonne from the men of Iabesh Gilead, which had stollen them from the street of Bethshan where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slaine Saul in Gilboa.

1611 marginal note1.Sam. 31.10.

And hee brought vp from thence the bones of Saul, and the bones of Ionathan his sonne, and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.