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Jerome's Latin Vulgate
4 Regum 20:5
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Dixit autem David ad Jonathan : Ecce calendæ sunt crastino, et ego ex more sedere soleo juxta regem ad vescendum : dimitte ergo me ut abscondar in agro usque ad vesperam diei tertiæ.
Abiit ergo Amasa, ut convocaret Iudam; et moratus est ultra tempus, quod ei constituerat.
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
So Amasa: 2 Samuel 19:13
tarried: 1 Samuel 13:8
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 20:35 - at the time 2 Samuel 20:8 - Amasa
Gill's Notes on the Bible
So Amasa went to assemble [the men of] Judah,.... To gather, them together out of their several tribes, and bring them to Jerusalem:
but he tarried longer than the set time which he had appointed him: than the three days; whether this was owing to the remissness of Amasa, or the unwillingness of the people to serve under him, who had been Absalom's general in the late rebellion, or not having time sufficient allowed him, is not certain.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
He tarried - The cause of Amasa’s delay is not stated. It may have been the unwillingness of the men of Judah to place themselves under his orders, or it may have been caused by a wavering or hesitation in loyalty. This last is evidently insinuated in 2 Samuel 20:11, and no doubt this was the pretext, whether grounded in fact or not, by which Joab justified the murder of Amasa before David.