Seba's rebellion. Amasa is slain by Joab. Abela is besieged, but
upon the citizens casting over the wall the head of Seba, Joab
departeth with all his army.  And there happened to be there a
man of Belial, whose name was Seba, the son of Bochri, a man of
Jemini: and he sounded the trumpet, and said: We have no part in
David, nor inheritance in the son of Isai: return to thy
dwellings, O Israel.  And all Israel departed from David, and
followed Seba the son of Bochri: but the men of Juda stuck to
their king from the Jordan unto Jerusalem.  And when the king
was come into his house at Jerusalem, he took the ten women his
concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in
ward, allowing them provisions: and he went not in unto them,
but they were shut up unto the day of their death living in
widowhood.  And the king said to Amasa: Assemble to me all the
men of Juda against the third day, and be thou here present.  So
Amasa went to assemble the men of Juda, but he tarried beyond
the set time which th