Abishai
아비새
Named at 1 Samuel 26:6 as “Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab”: when David says to him and to Ahimelech the Hittite, “Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp?”, Abishai says, “I will go down with you.” At 26:7 David and Abishai come to the people by night; at 26:8 Abishai says to David, “God has delivered up your enemy into your hand today. Now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time,” and at 26:9 David says to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him.” The Korean Revised Version calls him 요압의 아우, Joab’s younger brother, and puts 스루야의 아들 (the son of Zeruiah) before Joab. 2 Samuel 2:18 says, “The three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel”, and 2:24 says, “But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. The sun went down when they had come to the hill of Ammah, that lies before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.” 2 Samuel 10:10–14 says that Joab committed the rest of the people into the hand of Abishai his brother, and put them in array against the children of Ammon, and said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will come and help you”; and that when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai, and entered into the city. 2 Samuel 16:9–10 says that Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head”, and that the king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah?”; 18:2 that David sent a third part of the people out under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother; and 18:5 that the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, “Deal gently for my sake with the young man Absalom.” 2 Samuel 19:21–22 says that Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, “Shouldn’t Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD’s anointed?”, and that David said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should be adversaries to me today?”; and 20:6–10 that David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom did. Take your lord’s servants and pursue after him, lest he get himself fortified cities, and escape out of our sight”, and that Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri. 2 Samuel 21:15–17 says that David grew faint in the war with the Philistines, and that when Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, thought he would kill David, Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine and killed him. 2 Samuel 23:18–19 names Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, chief of the three: he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three; he was made their captain, but he wasn’t included as one of the three (the Korean Revised Version reads 첫 삼인, the first three). 1 Chronicles 18:12 says, “Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah struck eighteen thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt.”
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- 1CH 2:13–17, engwebp
13and Jesse became the father of his firstborn Eliab, Abinadab the second, Shimea the third,
14Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,
15Ozem the sixth, and David the seventh;
16and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three.
17Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
- 1CH 11:20–21, engwebp
20Abishai, the brother of Joab, was chief of the three; for he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.
21Of the three, he was more honorable than the two, and was made their captain; however he wasn’t included in the three.
- 1CH 18:12–13, engwebp
12Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah struck eighteen thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt.
13He put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became servants to David. The LORD gave victory to David wherever he went.
- 1CH 19:10–15, engwebp
10Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose some of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.
11The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and they put themselves in array against the children of Ammon.
12He said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you are to help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will help you.
13Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people and for the cities of our God. May the LORD do that which seems good to him.”
14So Joab and the people who were with him came near to the front of the Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him.
15When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
- 1SA 26:5–12, engwebp
5Then David arose and came to the place where Saul had encamped; and David saw the place where Saul lay, with Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his army. Saul lay within the place of the wagons, and the people were encamped around him.
6Then David answered and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab, saying, “Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp?” Abishai said, “I will go down with you.”
7So David and Abishai came to the people by night; and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the place of the wagons, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people lay around him.
8Then Abishai said to David, “God has delivered up your enemy into your hand today. Now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time.”
9David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him, for who can stretch out his hand against the LORD’s anointed, and be guiltless?”
10David said, “As the LORD lives, the LORD will strike him; or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down into battle and perish.
11The LORD forbid that I should stretch out my hand against the LORD’s anointed; but now please take the spear that is at his head and the jar of water, and let’s go.”
12So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul’s head, and they went away. No man saw it, or knew it, nor did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen on them.
- 2SA 2:18–23, engwebp
18The three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Asahel was as light of foot as a wild gazelle.
19Asahel pursued Abner. He didn’t turn to the right hand or to the left from following Abner.
20Then Abner looked behind him and said, “Is that you, Asahel?” He answered, “It is.”
21Abner said to him, “Turn away to your right hand or to your left, and grab one of the young men, and take his armor.” But Asahel would not turn away from following him.
22Abner said again to Asahel, “Turn away from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I look Joab your brother in the face?”
23However, he refused to turn away. Therefore Abner with the back end of the spear struck him in the body, so that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there and died in the same place. As many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.
- 2SA 2:24–28, engwebp
24But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. The sun went down when they had come to the hill of Ammah, that lies before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.
25The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner and became one band, and stood on the top of a hill.
26Then Abner called to Joab, and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? Don’t you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long will it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?”
27Joab said, “As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people would have gone away, and not each followed his brother.”
28So Joab blew the trumpet; and all the people stood still and pursued Israel no more, and they fought no more.
- 2SA 3:28–30, engwebp
28Afterward, when David heard it, he said, “I and my kingdom are guiltless before the LORD forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner.
29Let it fall on the head of Joab and on all his father’s house. Let there not fail from the house of Joab one who has a discharge, or who is a leper, or who leans on a staff, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks bread.”
30So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
- 2SA 10:6–14, engwebp
6When the children of Ammon saw that they had become odious to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth Rehob and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, and the king of Maacah with one thousand men, and the men of Tob twelve thousand men.
7When David heard of it, he sent Joab and all the army of the mighty men.
8The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entrance of the gate. The Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah were by themselves in the field.
9Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel and put them in array against the Syrians.
10The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and he put them in array against the children of Ammon.
11He said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will come and help you.
12Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people and for the cities of our God; and may the LORD do what seems good to him.”
13So Joab and the people who were with him came near to the battle against the Syrians, and they fled before him.
14When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai, and entered into the city. Then Joab returned from the children of Ammon and came to Jerusalem.
- 2SA 16:5–14, engwebp
5When King David came to Bahurim, behold, a man of the family of Saul’s house came out, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera. He came out and cursed as he came.
6He cast stones at David and at all the servants of King David, and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.
7Shimei said when he cursed, “Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and wicked fellow!
8The LORD has returned on you all the blood of Saul’s house, in whose place you have reigned! The LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son! Behold, you are caught by your own mischief, because you are a man of blood!”
9Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head.”
10The king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because the LORD has said to him, ‘Curse David,’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’”
11David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my son, who came out of my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD has invited him.
12It may be that the LORD will look on the wrong done to me, and that the LORD will repay me good for the cursing of me today.”
13So David and his men went by the way; and Shimei went along on the hillside opposite him and cursed as he went, threw stones at him, and threw dust.
14The king and all the people who were with him arrived weary; and he refreshed himself there.
- 2SA 18:1–5, engwebp
1David counted the people who were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.
2David sent the people out, a third part under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the people, “I will also surely go out with you myself.”
3But the people said, “You shall not go out, for if we flee away, they will not care for us, neither if half of us die, will they care for us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore now it is better that you are ready to help us out of the city.”
4The king said to them, “I will do what seems best to you.” The king stood beside the gate, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.
5The king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, “Deal gently for my sake with the young man Absalom.” All the people heard when the king commanded all the captains concerning Absalom.
- 2SA 18:9–15, engwebp
9Absalom happened to meet David’s servants. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak; and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was hanging between the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.
10A certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, “Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.”
11Joab said to the man who told him, “Behold, you saw it, and why didn’t you strike him there to the ground? I would have given you ten pieces of silver and a sash.”
12The man said to Joab, “Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I still wouldn’t stretch out my hand against the king’s son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘Beware that no one touch the young man Absalom.’
13Otherwise, if I had dealt falsely against his life (and there is no matter hidden from the king), then you yourself would have set yourself against me.”
14Then Joab said, “I’m not going to wait like this with you.” He took three darts in his hand and thrust them through Absalom’s heart while he was still alive in the middle of the oak.
15Ten young men who bore Joab’s armor surrounded and struck Absalom, and killed him.
- 2SA 19:16–23, engwebp
16Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, who was of Bahurim, hurried and came down with the men of Judah to meet King David.
17There were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of Saul’s house, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went through the Jordan in the presence of the king.
18A ferry boat went to bring over the king’s household, and to do what he thought good. Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king when he had come over the Jordan.
19He said to the king, “Don’t let my lord impute iniquity to me, or remember that which your servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.
20For your servant knows that I have sinned. Therefore behold, I have come today as the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.”
21But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, “Shouldn’t Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD’s anointed?”
22David said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should be adversaries to me today? Shall any man be put to death today in Israel? For don’t I know that I am king over Israel today?”
23The king said to Shimei, “You will not die.” The king swore to him.
- 2SA 20:4–7, engwebp
4Then the king said to Amasa, “Call me the men of Judah together within three days, and be here present.”
5So Amasa went to call the men of Judah together, but he stayed longer than the set time which had been appointed to him.
6David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom did. Take your lord’s servants and pursue after him, lest he get himself fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.”
7Joab’s men went out after him with the Cherethites, the Pelethites, and all the mighty men; and they went out of Jerusalem to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.
- 2SA 20:8–13, engwebp
8When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Joab was clothed in his apparel of war that he had put on, and on it was a sash with a sword fastened on his waist in its sheath; and as he went along it fell out.
9Joab said to Amasa, “Is it well with you, my brother?” Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.
10But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand. So he struck him with it in the body and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn’t strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.
11One of Joab’s young men stood by him, and said, “He who favors Joab, and he who is for David, let him follow Joab!”
12Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the middle of the highway. When the man saw that all the people stood still, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a garment over him when he saw that everyone who came by him stood still.
13When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.
- 2SA 21:15–17, engwebp
15The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. David grew faint;
16and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of bronze in weight, he being armed with a new sword, thought he would kill David.
17But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, “Don’t go out with us to battle any more, so that you don’t quench the lamp of Israel.”
- 2SA 23:18–19, engwebp
18Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the three. He lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.
19Wasn’t he most honorable of the three? Therefore he was made their captain. However he wasn’t included as one of the three.
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Unresolved interpretation: Who is called the son of Zeruiah at 1 Samuel 26:6
- At 26:6 the Korean Revised Version reads 이에 다윗이 헷 사람 아히멜렉과 스루야의 아들 요압의 아우 아비새에게 물어 가로되: 스루야의 아들 (the son of Zeruiah) stands before Joab, and Abishai is called 요압의 아우, Joab’s younger brother.
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- 1SA 26:5–12, engwebp
5Then David arose and came to the place where Saul had encamped; and David saw the place where Saul lay, with Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his army. Saul lay within the place of the wagons, and the people were encamped around him.
6Then David answered and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab, saying, “Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp?” Abishai said, “I will go down with you.”
7So David and Abishai came to the people by night; and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the place of the wagons, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people lay around him.
8Then Abishai said to David, “God has delivered up your enemy into your hand today. Now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time.”
9David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him, for who can stretch out his hand against the LORD’s anointed, and be guiltless?”
10David said, “As the LORD lives, the LORD will strike him; or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down into battle and perish.
11The LORD forbid that I should stretch out my hand against the LORD’s anointed; but now please take the spear that is at his head and the jar of water, and let’s go.”
12So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul’s head, and they went away. No man saw it, or knew it, nor did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen on them.
- 1SA 26:5–12, engwebp
- WEB reads at 26:6, “Then David answered and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab”: “the son of Zeruiah” stands after Abishai, and “brother of Joab” follows it.
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- 1SA 26:5–12, engwebp
5Then David arose and came to the place where Saul had encamped; and David saw the place where Saul lay, with Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his army. Saul lay within the place of the wagons, and the people were encamped around him.
6Then David answered and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab, saying, “Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp?” Abishai said, “I will go down with you.”
7So David and Abishai came to the people by night; and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the place of the wagons, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people lay around him.
8Then Abishai said to David, “God has delivered up your enemy into your hand today. Now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time.”
9David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him, for who can stretch out his hand against the LORD’s anointed, and be guiltless?”
10David said, “As the LORD lives, the LORD will strike him; or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down into battle and perish.
11The LORD forbid that I should stretch out my hand against the LORD’s anointed; but now please take the spear that is at his head and the jar of water, and let’s go.”
12So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul’s head, and they went away. No man saw it, or knew it, nor did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen on them.
- 1SA 26:5–12, engwebp
- 2 Samuel 16:9 calls Abishai “the son of Zeruiah” in both editions (스루야의 아들 아비새). At 17:25 WEB reads “Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother”, and the Korean Revised Version reads 아비갈은 요압의 어미 스루야의 동생이더라: in this verse both editions call Zeruiah Joab’s mother.
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- 2SA 16:5–14, engwebp
5When King David came to Bahurim, behold, a man of the family of Saul’s house came out, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera. He came out and cursed as he came.
6He cast stones at David and at all the servants of King David, and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.
7Shimei said when he cursed, “Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and wicked fellow!
8The LORD has returned on you all the blood of Saul’s house, in whose place you have reigned! The LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son! Behold, you are caught by your own mischief, because you are a man of blood!”
9Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head.”
10The king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because the LORD has said to him, ‘Curse David,’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’”
11David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my son, who came out of my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD has invited him.
12It may be that the LORD will look on the wrong done to me, and that the LORD will repay me good for the cursing of me today.”
13So David and his men went by the way; and Shimei went along on the hillside opposite him and cursed as he went, threw stones at him, and threw dust.
14The king and all the people who were with him arrived weary; and he refreshed himself there.
- 2SA 17:24–26, engwebp
24Then David came to Mahanaim. Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.
25Absalom set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.
26Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead.
- 2SA 16:5–14, engwebp
At 1 Samuel 26:6 the Korean Revised Version puts 스루야의 아들 (the son of Zeruiah) before Joab and calls Abishai Joab’s younger brother, and WEB puts “the son of Zeruiah” after Abishai, followed by “brother of Joab”. At 2 Samuel 17:25 both editions call Zeruiah Joab’s mother (요압의 어미 스루야; “Zeruiah, Joab’s mother”), and at 16:9 both call Abishai the son of Zeruiah. This collection records Zeruiah as Joab’s mother from 17:25 and Joab and Abishai as brothers, and does not decide who 1 Samuel 26:6 calls the son of Zeruiah.
All 17 relationships: AI-assisted, human review pending
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Joab — Sibling of — Abishai
Evidence: 1 Chronicles 11:20–21, 1 Chronicles 19:10–15, 1 Samuel 26:5–12, 2 Samuel 2:18–23, 2 Samuel 3:28–30, 2 Samuel 10:6–14, 2 Samuel 18:1–5, 2 Samuel 20:8–13, 2 Samuel 23:18–19
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Abishai — Sibling of — Asahel (son of Zeruiah)
Evidence: 2 Samuel 2:18–23, 2 Samuel 3:28–30
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Zeruiah — Mother of — Abishai
Evidence: 1 Chronicles 2:13–17
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Took part in (14) — David, who comes by night with Abishai, takes the spear and the jar of water from Saul’s head, Asahel, pursuing Abner, is struck by Abner with the back end of the spear and dies, Joab and Abishai pursue Abner to the hill of Ammah, and Abner calls to Joab, The Syrians flee before Joab, and the children of Ammon before Abishai his brother, Shimei the son of Gera comes out at Bahurim, curses David, and casts stones at him, David sends the people out under Joab, Abishai and Ittai, and charges them to deal gently with the young man Absalom, Shimei the son of Gera falls down before the king, and the king swears to him, The king tells Amasa to call the men of Judah together, and David tells Abishai to pursue Sheba, At the great stone in Gibeon, Amasa is struck with the sword in Joab’s hand and dies, Abishai the son of Zeruiah helps David and kills Ishbibenob, Abishai, the brother of Joab, lifts up his spear against three hundred and kills them, Abishai the brother of Joab has a name among the three and is made their captain, The eighteen thousand Edomites whom Abishai strikes in the Valley of Salt, and the garrisons in Edom, The Syrians and the children of Ammon flee before Joab and Abishai his brother
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Then David answered and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab, saying, “Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp?” Abishai said, “I will go down with you.”
So David and Abishai came to the people by night; and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the place of the wagons, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people lay around him.
Then Abishai said to David, “God has delivered up your enemy into your hand today. Now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time.”
David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him, for who can stretch out his hand against the LORD’s anointed, and be guiltless?”
The three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Asahel was as light of foot as a wild gazelle.
But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. The sun went down when they had come to the hill of Ammah, that lies before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.
So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and he put them in array against the children of Ammon.
When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai, and entered into the city. Then Joab returned from the children of Ammon and came to Jerusalem.
Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head.”
David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my son, who came out of my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD has invited him.
David sent the people out, a third part under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the people, “I will also surely go out with you myself.”
The king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, “Deal gently for my sake with the young man Absalom.” All the people heard when the king commanded all the captains concerning Absalom.
The man said to Joab, “Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I still wouldn’t stretch out my hand against the king’s son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘Beware that no one touch the young man Absalom.’
But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, “Shouldn’t Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD’s anointed?”
David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom did. Take your lord’s servants and pursue after him, lest he get himself fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.”
But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand. So he struck him with it in the body and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn’t strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.
But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, “Don’t go out with us to battle any more, so that you don’t quench the lamp of Israel.”
Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the three. He lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.
and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three.
Abishai, the brother of Joab, was chief of the three; for he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.
Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah struck eighteen thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt.
The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and they put themselves in array against the children of Ammon.
When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
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[Bibliadatum entry report] Entry: Abishai (person-abishai) Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/person/abishai Current wording: Named at 1 Samuel 26:6 as “Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab”: when David says to him and to Ahimelech the Hittite, “Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp?”, Abishai says, “I will go down with you.” At 26:7 David and Abishai come to the people by night; at 26:8 Abishai says to David, “God has delivered up your enemy into your hand today. Now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time,” and at 26:9 David says to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him.” The Korean Revised Version calls him 요압의 아우, Joab’s younger brother, and puts 스루야의 아들 (the son of Zeruiah) before Joab. 2 Samuel 2:18 says, “The three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel”, and 2:24 says, “But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. The sun went down when they had come to the hill of Ammah, that lies before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.” 2 Samuel 10:10–14 says that Joab committed the rest of the people into the hand of Abishai his brother, and put them in array against the children of Ammon, and said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will come and help you”; and that when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai, and entered into the city. 2 Samuel 16:9–10 says that Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head”, and that the king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah?”; 18:2 that David sent a third part of the people out under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother; and 18:5 that the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, “Deal gently for my sake with the young man Absalom.” 2 Samuel 19:21–22 says that Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, “Shouldn’t Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD’s anointed?”, and that David said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should be adversaries to me today?”; and 20:6–10 that David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom did. Take your lord’s servants and pursue after him, lest he get himself fortified cities, and escape out of our sight”, and that Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri. 2 Samuel 21:15–17 says that David grew faint in the war with the Philistines, and that when Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, thought he would kill David, Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine and killed him. 2 Samuel 23:18–19 names Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, chief of the three: he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three; he was made their captain, but he wasn’t included as one of the three (the Korean Revised Version reads 첫 삼인, the first three). 1 Chronicles 18:12 says, “Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah struck eighteen thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt.” Cited evidence: 1CH 2:13–17, engwebp / 1CH 11:20–21, engwebp / 1CH 18:12–13, engwebp / 1CH 19:10–15, engwebp / 1SA 26:5–12, engwebp / 2SA 2:18–23, engwebp / 2SA 2:24–28, engwebp / 2SA 3:28–30, engwebp (and 9 more of 17) Review state: ai-assisted / human-review-pending What looks wrong: (not written yet) --- This collection records what the text says and does not settle interpretation. A report about a reading that divides opinion may be registered as an unresolved issue rather than corrected.