SEV Biblia, Chapter 20:1
¶ Y acaeció estar allí un varón de Belial que se llamaba Seba, hijo de Bicri, varón de Jemini, el cual tocó la trompeta diciendo: No tenemos nosotros parte en David, ni heredad en el hijo de Isaí. Israel, ¡cada uno a sus estancias!
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 20:1
Verse 1. 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. 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.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 1. And there happened to be a man of Belial , etc.] 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.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-3 - One trial arises after another for our good, till we reach the plac where sin and sorrow are for ever done away. Angry disputer misunderstand or misconstrue one another's words; proud men will have every thing their own way, or wholly refuse their assistance. The favour of the many is not to be depended upon; and what have others to expect, when Hosanna to the Son of David was soon changed to Crucif him, crucify him?
Original Hebrew
ושׁם 8033 נקרא 7122 אישׁ 376 בליעל 1100 ושׁמו 8034 שׁבע 7652 בן 1121 בכרי 1075 אישׁ 376 ימיני 3228 ויתקע 8628 בשׁפר 7782 ויאמר 559 אין 369 לנו חלק 2506 בדוד 1732 ולא 3808 נחלה 5159 לנו בבן 1121 ישׁי 3448 אישׁ 376 לאהליו 168 ישׂראל׃ 3478
