1 Sheba Leads Israel Away from David It happened that a troublemaker named Sheba son of Bicri was there. Sheba was from the tribe of Benjamin. He blew the trumpet and said: “We have no share in David! We have no part in the son of Jesse! People of Israel, let’s go to our own homes!”

2 So all the Israelites left David and followed Sheba son of Bicri. But the men of Judah stayed with their king all the way from the Jordan River to Jerusalem.