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Named at 1 Samuel 26:6, where WEB calls Abishai “the son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab”; the Korean Revised Version reads 스루야의 아들 요압의 아우 아비새, calling Abishai Joab’s younger brother, with 스루야의 아들 (the son of Zeruiah) standing before Joab. 2 Samuel 2:13–14 says that Joab the son of Zeruiah and David’s servants met Abner the son of Ner and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul by the pool of Gibeon, and that when Abner said to Joab, “Please let the young men arise and compete before us!”, Joab said, “Let them arise!”; 2:18 says that the three sons of Zeruiah, Joab, Abishai, and Asahel, were there; at 2:24–27 Joab and Abishai pursue Abner, and when Abner calls to Joab, Joab says, “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”; and at 2:30–32 Joab returns from following Abner and gathers all the people together, and Joab and his men go all night, and the day breaks on them at Hebron. 2 Samuel 3:22–27 says that when Joab came from a raid, they told him that Abner the son of Ner had come to the king and gone in peace; that Joab came to the king and said, “You know Abner the son of Ner. He came to deceive you”; and that when Abner had returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died for the blood of Asahel his brother. 2 Samuel 10:7–14 says that David sent Joab and all the army of the mighty men, and Joab put the choice men of Israel in array against the Syrians and committed the rest of the people into the hand of Abishai his brother, and that Joab and the people who were with him came near to the battle against the Syrians, and they fled before him; 11:1–25 says that David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel, and they besieged Rabbah, that David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah, and Joab assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were, that when the men of the city went out and fought with Joab, Uriah the Hittite died also, and that Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war. 2 Samuel 14:1–3 says that Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was toward Absalom, sent to Tekoa and brought a wise woman from there, and put the words in her mouth; 14:19 that the woman answered the king, “for your servant Joab urged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your servant”; 14:21–23 that the king said to Joab, “Go therefore, and bring the young man Absalom back”, and Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem; and 14:30–33 that when Absalom’s servants set Joab’s field on fire, Joab came to Absalom to his house, and afterward came to the king and told him. 2 Samuel 18:2 says that David sent a third part of the people out under the hand of Joab; 18:10–15 that when a certain man told Joab, “Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak”, Joab said, “I’m not going to wait like this with you”, took three darts in his hand and thrust them through Absalom’s heart while he was still alive in the middle of the oak, and ten young men who bore Joab’s armor surrounded and struck Absalom, and killed him; 18:16 that Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; and 18:20–21 that he said to Ahimaaz, “today you must carry no news, because the king’s son is dead”, and to the Cushite, “Go, tell the king what you have seen!” 2 Samuel 19:5–7 gives what Joab said when he came into the house to the king, ending, “Now therefore arise, go out and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by the LORD, if you don’t go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now”; 20:8–10 says that at the great stone which is in Gibeon Joab said to Amasa, “Is it well with you, my brother?”, and took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him, and that Amasa, who took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand, was struck with it in the body and died; 20:15–22 that all the people who were with Joab battered the wall of Abel of Beth Maacah to throw it down, that a wise woman said to Joab, “Behold, his head will be thrown to you over the wall”, and that they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri and threw it out to Joab, and Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king; and 20:23 that “Joab was over all the army of Israel”. 2 Samuel 24:2–9 says that the king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, “Now go back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and count the people, that I may know the sum of the people”; that Joab said, “why does my lord the king delight in this thing?”, yet the king’s word prevailed against Joab and against the captains of the army; and that when they had gone back and forth through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days, and Joab gave up the sum of the counting of the people to the king. 1 Kings 1:7 says that Joab the son of Zeruiah and Abiathar the priest followed Adonijah and helped him; 2:5–6 that David spoke to Solomon of what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and said, “Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don’t let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace”; and 2:28–34 that when this news came to Joab, Joab fled to the LORD’s Tent and held onto the horns of the altar, and that Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, whom Solomon sent, went up and fell on him, and killed him, and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness. 1 Chronicles 11:6 says, “David had said, ‘Whoever strikes the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain.’ Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, and was made chief”; and 11:8 says that Joab repaired the rest of the city. 1 Chronicles 27:24 says, “Joab the son of Zeruiah began to take a census, but didn’t finish; and wrath came on Israel for this. The number wasn’t put into the account in the chronicles of King David.” 27:34 says, “Joab was the captain of the king’s army.”

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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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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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.

Unresolved interpretation: The census as 2 Samuel 24 and 1 Chronicles 21 tell it
  • 2 Samuel 24:1 says, “Again the LORD’s anger burned against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, ‘Go, count Israel and Judah.’”; 24:2 that the king said to Joab the captain of the army, “Now go back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and count the people, that I may know the sum of the people”; and 24:9, “Joab gave up the sum of the counting of the people to the king; and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.” 24:13 says that Gad asked David, “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land?”; 24:18 names “the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite”; and 24:24 says, “So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.”
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    • 2SA 24:1–3, engwebp

      1Again the LORD’s anger burned against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, “Go, count Israel and Judah.”

      2The king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, “Now go back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and count the people, that I may know the sum of the people.”

      3Joab said to the king, “Now may the LORD your God add to the people, however many they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?”

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    • 2SA 24:8–9, engwebp

      8So when they had gone back and forth through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

      9Joab gave up the sum of the counting of the people to the king; and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.

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    • 2SA 24:10–14, engwebp

      10David’s heart struck him after he had counted the people. David said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, the LORD, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”

      11When David rose up in the morning, the LORD’s word came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,

      12“Go and speak to David, ‘The LORD says, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’”

      13So Gad came to David, and told him, saying, “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now answer, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”

      14David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let us fall now into the LORD’s hand, for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into man’s hand.”

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    • 2SA 24:18–25, engwebp

      18Gad came that day to David and said to him, “Go up, build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

      19David went up according to the saying of Gad, as the LORD commanded.

      20Araunah looked out, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him. Then Araunah went out and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.

      21Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” David said, “To buy your threshing floor, to build an altar to the LORD, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”

      22Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Behold, the cattle for the burnt offering, and the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.

      23All this, O king, does Araunah give to the king.” Araunah said to the king, “May the LORD your God accept you.”

      24The king said to Araunah, “No, but I will most certainly buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God which cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

      25David built an altar to the LORD there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was entreated for the land, and the plague was removed from Israel.

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  • 1 Chronicles 21:1 says, “Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel”; 21:2 that David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, “Go, count Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know how many there are”; and 21:5–6, “Joab gave the sum of the census of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew a sword; and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew a sword. But he didn’t count Levi and Benjamin among them, for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.” In the LORD’s word as Gad tells it, 21:12 reads “either three years of famine”; 21:18 names “the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite”; 21:25 says, “So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place”; and 21:26 says that David “called on the LORD; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.”
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    • 1CH 21:1–6, engwebp

      1Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel.

      2David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, “Go, count Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know how many there are.”

      3Joab said, “May the LORD make his people a hundred times as many as they are. But, my lord the king, aren’t they all my lord’s servants? Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel?”

      4Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed and went throughout all Israel, then came to Jerusalem.

      5Joab gave the sum of the census of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew a sword; and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew a sword.

      6But he didn’t count Levi and Benjamin among them, for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.

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    • 1CH 21:9–13, engwebp

      9The LORD spoke to Gad, David’s seer, saying,

      10“Go and speak to David, saying, ‘The LORD says, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’”

      11So Gad came to David and said to him, “The LORD says, ‘Take your choice:

      12either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days of the sword of the LORD, even pestilence in the land, and the LORD’s angel destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.’”

      13David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into the LORD’s hand, for his mercies are very great. Don’t let me fall into man’s hand.”

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    • 1CH 21:18–25, engwebp

      18Then the LORD’s angel commanded Gad to tell David that David should go up and raise an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

      19David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the LORD’s name.

      20Ornan turned back and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.

      21As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.

      22Then David said to Ornan, “Sell me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to the LORD on it. You shall sell it to me for the full price, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”

      23Ornan said to David, “Take it for yourself, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes. Behold, I give the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal offering. I give it all.”

      24King David said to Ornan, “No, but I will most certainly buy it for the full price. For I will not take that which is yours for the LORD, nor offer a burnt offering that costs me nothing.”

      25So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.

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    • 1CH 21:26–27, engwebp

      26David built an altar to the LORD there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on the LORD; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.

      27Then the LORD commanded the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.

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  • 1 Chronicles 27:23–24 says, “But David didn’t take the number of them from twenty years old and under, because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like the stars of the sky. Joab the son of Zeruiah began to take a census, but didn’t finish; and wrath came on Israel for this. The number wasn’t put into the account in the chronicles of King David.” The Korean Revised Version gives the LORD’s word at 27:23 as he said it (여호와께서 전에 말씀하시기를 이스라엘 사람을 하늘의 별 같이 많게 하리라 하셨음이라).
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    • 1CH 27:23–24, engwebp

      23But David didn’t take the number of them from twenty years old and under, because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like the stars of the sky.

      24Joab the son of Zeruiah began to take a census, but didn’t finish; and wrath came on Israel for this. The number wasn’t put into the account in the chronicles of King David.

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The two books each tell, in their own words, of a census of Israel. 2 Samuel 24:1 says that the LORD’s anger burned against Israel, and he moved David against them; 1 Chronicles 21:1 says that Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel. 2 Samuel 24:2 gives the count “from Dan even to Beersheba”, and 1 Chronicles 21:2 “from Beersheba even to Dan”. 2 Samuel 24:9 gives eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword in Israel and five hundred thousand men of Judah; 1 Chronicles 21:5 gives one million one hundred thousand men of Israel who drew a sword and four hundred seventy thousand in Judah, and 21:6 says that Levi and Benjamin were not counted among them; 2 Samuel 24:1–3 and 24:8–9 say nothing of Levi and Benjamin. 2 Samuel 24:13 names seven years of famine, and 1 Chronicles 21:12 three years of famine. 2 Samuel 24:18 names “the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite”, and 1 Chronicles 21:18 “the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite”; in both editions the two names differ (the Korean Revised Version 아라우나 and 오르난, WEB Araunah and Ornan). 2 Samuel 24:24 says that David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver, and 1 Chronicles 21:25 that David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place. 1 Chronicles 21:26 says that the LORD answered David from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering; 2 Samuel 24:18–25 says nothing of fire. The text does not say how the two accounts stand to each other. This collection records each account from its own verses, keeps Araunah and Ornan and their threshing floors apart, does not relate or reconcile the numbers of the two accounts, and does not decide whether Araunah and Ornan are one man or the two threshing floors one place.

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Entry: Joab (person-joab)
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Current wording: Named at 1 Samuel 26:6, where WEB calls Abishai “the son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab”; the Korean Revised Version reads 스루야의 아들 요압의 아우 아비새, calling Abishai Joab’s younger brother, with 스루야의 아들 (the son of Zeruiah) standing before Joab. 2 Samuel 2:13–14 says that Joab the son of Zeruiah and David’s servants met Abner the son of Ner and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul by the pool of Gibeon, and that when Abner said to Joab, “Please let the young men arise and compete before us!”, Joab said, “Let them arise!”; 2:18 says that the three sons of Zeruiah, Joab, Abishai, and Asahel, were there; at 2:24–27 Joab and Abishai pursue Abner, and when Abner calls to Joab, Joab says, “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”; and at 2:30–32 Joab returns from following Abner and gathers all the people together, and Joab and his men go all night, and the day breaks on them at Hebron. 2 Samuel 3:22–27 says that when Joab came from a raid, they told him that Abner the son of Ner had come to the king and gone in peace; that Joab came to the king and said, “You know Abner the son of Ner. He came to deceive you”; and that when Abner had returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died for the blood of Asahel his brother. 2 Samuel 10:7–14 says that David sent Joab and all the army of the mighty men, and Joab put the choice men of Israel in array against the Syrians and committed the rest of the people into the hand of Abishai his brother, and that Joab and the people who were with him came near to the battle against the Syrians, and they fled before him; 11:1–25 says that David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel, and they besieged Rabbah, that David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah, and Joab assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were, that when the men of the city went out and fought with Joab, Uriah the Hittite died also, and that Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war. 2 Samuel 14:1–3 says that Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was toward Absalom, sent to Tekoa and brought a wise woman from there, and put the words in her mouth; 14:19 that the woman answered the king, “for your servant Joab urged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your servant”; 14:21–23 that the king said to Joab, “Go therefore, and bring the young man Absalom back”, and Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem; and 14:30–33 that when Absalom’s servants set Joab’s field on fire, Joab came to Absalom to his house, and afterward came to the king and told him. 2 Samuel 18:2 says that David sent a third part of the people out under the hand of Joab; 18:10–15 that when a certain man told Joab, “Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak”, Joab said, “I’m not going to wait like this with you”, took three darts in his hand and thrust them through Absalom’s heart while he was still alive in the middle of the oak, and ten young men who bore Joab’s armor surrounded and struck Absalom, and killed him; 18:16 that Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; and 18:20–21 that he said to Ahimaaz, “today you must carry no news, because the king’s son is dead”, and to the Cushite, “Go, tell the king what you have seen!” 2 Samuel 19:5–7 gives what Joab said when he came into the house to the king, ending, “Now therefore arise, go out and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by the LORD, if you don’t go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now”; 20:8–10 says that at the great stone which is in Gibeon Joab said to Amasa, “Is it well with you, my brother?”, and took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him, and that Amasa, who took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand, was struck with it in the body and died; 20:15–22 that all the people who were with Joab battered the wall of Abel of Beth Maacah to throw it down, that a wise woman said to Joab, “Behold, his head will be thrown to you over the wall”, and that they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri and threw it out to Joab, and Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king; and 20:23 that “Joab was over all the army of Israel”. 2 Samuel 24:2–9 says that the king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, “Now go back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and count the people, that I may know the sum of the people”; that Joab said, “why does my lord the king delight in this thing?”, yet the king’s word prevailed against Joab and against the captains of the army; and that when they had gone back and forth through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days, and Joab gave up the sum of the counting of the people to the king. 1 Kings 1:7 says that Joab the son of Zeruiah and Abiathar the priest followed Adonijah and helped him; 2:5–6 that David spoke to Solomon of what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and said, “Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don’t let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace”; and 2:28–34 that when this news came to Joab, Joab fled to the LORD’s Tent and held onto the horns of the altar, and that Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, whom Solomon sent, went up and fell on him, and killed him, and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness. 1 Chronicles 11:6 says, “David had said, ‘Whoever strikes the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain.’ Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, and was made chief”; and 11:8 says that Joab repaired the rest of the city. 1 Chronicles 27:24 says, “Joab the son of Zeruiah began to take a census, but didn’t finish; and wrath came on Israel for this. The number wasn’t put into the account in the chronicles of King David.” 27:34 says, “Joab was the captain of the king’s army.”
Cited evidence: 1CH 2:13–17, engwebp / 1CH 11:4–9, engwebp / 1CH 11:20–21, engwebp / 1CH 11:26–47, engwebp / 1CH 18:14–17, engwebp / 1CH 19:6–9, engwebp / 1CH 19:10–15, engwebp / 1CH 20:1–3, engwebp (and 50 more of 58)
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