2 Samuel 20:6
And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom: take thou thy lord’s servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape us. And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom: take thou thy lord’s servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape us.
The revolt of Sheba the son of Bichri came hard upon the suppression of Absalom's revolt, given occasion by the quarrel between the men of Judah and the men of Israel, and threatening to prove a very serious thing. David judged that Sheba could do more harm than Absalom had done, so he urgently ordered Abishai to take his lord's servants and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities and escape.
The verse belongs to the history in 2 Samuel 11-24 and 1 Kings 1-2, to the portion found in 2 Samuel 19-21, and to the account of troubles in David's family. That family trouble is connected to his multiplying wives, teaching that people suffer for walking contrary to God's laws because every transgression carries an inherent curse.
It stands as one of David's unended troubles and calamities directly traceable as judgment and chastening for his sin in the case of Uriah, proving that the sword should never depart from his house. It shows the judgments that came upon David after his great wickedness in the case of Uriah, by which he gave great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, and that transgression is not covered up nor excused. It stands with the terrible denunciation of the prophet Nathan placed on record and with David's own most humble confession placed on record for all future time as proof that the prophetic denunciation was completely accomplished.