2 Samuel 20:8

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Ketika mereka sampai ke batu besar yang di Gibeon, maka Amasa sudah tiba di sana lebih dahulu dari pada mereka. Adapun Yoab mengenakan pakaian perang dan di luarnya ada ikat pinggang dengan pedang bersarung terpaut pada pinggangnya. Ketika ia tampil ke muka terjatuhlah pedang itu.

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Ketika mereka sampai ke batu besar yang di Gibeon, maka Amasa sudah tiba di sana lebih dahulu dari pada mereka. Adapun Yoab mengenakan pakaian perang dan di luarnya ada ikat pinggang dengan pedang bersarung terpaut pada pinggangnya. Ketika ia tampil ke muka terjatuhlah pedang itu.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Setelah sampai mereka itu ke batu besar yang di Gibeon itu, maka datanglah Amasa bertemu dengan mereka itu. Adapun Yoab itu berpakaikan baju selimut dengan sandangan di atasnya, dan pada sandangan itu dikenakan pedang dengan sarungnya tersangkut pada pangkal pahanya, maka dalam ia berjalan ke hadapan terhunuslah terhunuslah pedang itu.

Contextual Overview

⁴ Then saide the king to Amasa: Call me the men of Iuda together within three dayes, and be thou here also. ⁵ And so Amasa went to gather ye men of Iuda together, but taryed longer the the time which he had appoynted him. ⁶ And Dauid saide to Abisai: Now shal Seba the sonne of Bichri do vs more harme then did Absalom: Take thou therefore thy lordes seruauntes, and folowe after him, lest he get him walled cities, and escape vs. ⁷ And there went out after him Ioabs men, and the Cerethites, and the Phelethites, and all the mightyest men: And they departed out of Hierusalem, to folow after Seba the sonne of Bichri. ⁸ And when they were at ye great stone in Gibeon, Amasa went before them: And Ioabs garment that he had about him, was girde vnto him, & he had gyrded thereon a sword, which was ioyned fast to his loynes in a sheath, that as he went it fell sometime out. ⁹ And Ioab saide to Amasa: Art thou in health my brother? And Ioab toke Amasa by ye beard with the right hand, to kisse him. ¹⁰ But Amasa toke no heede to the sword that was in Ioabs hand: for therewith he smote him in the fyst [rybbe] & shed out his bowels to the grounde, and thrust at him no more, & he dyed: So Ioab and Abisai his brother folowed after Seba the sonne of Bichri. ¹¹ And one of Ioabs men stoode by him, and saide: He that beareth any fauour to Ioab, or good will to Dauid, let him go after Ioab. ¹² And Amasa wallowed in blood in the middes of the way: And when the man sawe that all the people stoode still, he remoued Amasa out of the way into the fielde, and cast a cloth vpon him, because he saw that euery one that came by him stoode still. ¹³ And assoone as he was remoued out of the way, al the people went after Ioab, to folow after Seba the sonne of Bichri.

Bible Verse Review
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in Gibeon: 2 Samuel 2:13, 2 Samuel 3:30

Amasa: 2 Samuel 20:4, 2 Samuel 20:5

Reciprocal: Hosea 6:8 - polluted with blood

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When they [were] at the great stone which [is] in Gibeon,.... Which, according to Josephus r, was forty furlongs, or five miles from Jerusalem: what this great stone was, whether an obelisk, or what, is not certain; one of the greatest stones we read of was that which Semiramis cut out of the mountains of Armenia, which was an hundred thirty feet long, and twenty five broad and thick s. This place was appointed for the rendezvous of David's forces, and hither Amasa came with what he had assembled together, and joined them, and took the command of them: for it follows,

Amasa went before them; as the general of them:

and Joab's garment that he had put on was girded unto him; who went along with his brother Abishai at the head of his own men, to which he was obliged by virtue of his commission; or went of himself to serve the common cause, and perhaps chiefly with a design to murder Amasa, whom he envied, because he was put into his post as general, and therefore accoutred himself for it; he put on, not a coat of mail, but a common garment which he girt about him, that it might be no incumbrance to him or hinderance of him, in doing what he intended, but that he might more expeditiously execute it:

and upon it a girdle [with] a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; the sword in the belt was not on his thigh, but on his loins, on the outside of his clothes, and was put into a sheath too large, and placed in such a position, that with the least motion, when he pleased, it would easily drop out of it, without drawing it, and so give no suspicion of his design:

and as he went forth; to meet Amasa, just as he came to him:

it fell out; the sword fell out of the sheath to the ground.

r Antiqu. l. 7. c. 11. sect. 7. s Diodor. Sic. l. 2. p. 100. Vid. ib. p. 53. Herodot. Euterpe, c. 111.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Amasa went before them - Rather, “advanced to meet them.” Amasa was no doubt returning to Jerusalem, according to his orders 2 Samuel 20:4, and was probably much surprised to meet the army in march. Joab’s resolution was quickly taken.

And Joab’s garment ... - Render, “And Joab was girded with his military garment, as his clothing, and upon it” - i. e., the military garment - (or “him”), “the girdle of a sword fastened on his loins in its sheath, and as he went forth” (to meet Amasa) “it fell” out of the sheath. What appears to have happened is that, by accident or design, Joab’s sword fell out of the scabbard on the ground as he was going to meet Amasa, and that he picked it up with his left hand so as to have his right hand free for the customary salutation 2 Samuel 20:9. This awakened no suspicion in Amasa’s mind. Compare the case of Ehud, Judges 3:21.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 20:8. Joab's garment — It appears that this was not a military garment; and that Joab had no arms but a short sword, which he had concealed in his girdle; and this sword, or knife, was so loose in its sheath that it could be easily drawn out. It is thought farther, that Joab, in passing to Amasa, stumbled, (for so some of the versions, and able critics, understand the words it fell out.) and that the sword fell down when he stumbled; that he took it up with his left hand as if he had no bad intention; and then, taking Amasa by the beard with his right hand, pretending to kiss him, he, with his sword in his left hand, ripped up his bowels. This seems to be the meaning of this very obscure verse. It is worthy of remark that in the Eastern country it is the beard, not the man, which is usually kissed.