Tarried — Either, because the people being wearied out by the late war, were not forward to engage in another: or because the soldiers had more affection to Joab, than to their new general.
Related Commentaries of 2 Samuel 20:5
2 Samuel 20:5
5 So Amasa went to assemble the men of Judah: but he tarried longer than the set time which he had appointed him.