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Non-Exact Match
So Joab got up, went to Geshur, and brought Absalom
“Look,” Absalom explained to Joab, “I sent for you and said, ‘Come here. I want to send you to the king to ask: Why have I come back from Geshur? I’d be better off if I were still there.’ So now, let me see the king. If I am guilty, let him kill me.”
Joab went to the king and told him. So David summoned Absalom, who came to the king and bowed down with his face to the ground before him. Then the king kissed Absalom.
One of the men saw him and informed Joab. He said, “I just saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree!”
“You just saw him!” Joab exclaimed.
“No matter what, I want to run!”
“Then run!” Joab said to him. So Ahimaaz ran by way of the plain and outran the Cushite.
Then Joab went into the house to the king and said, “Today you have shamed all your soldiers—those who rescued your life and the lives of your sons and daughters, your wives, and your concubines.
And tell Amasa,
They were at the great stone in Gibeon when Amasa joined them. Joab was wearing his uniform and over it was a belt around his waist with a sword in its sheath. As he approached, the sword fell out.
When he was removed from the highway, all the men passed by and followed Joab to pursue Sheba son of Bichri.
a wise woman called out from the city, “Listen! Listen! Please tell Joab to come here and let me speak with him.”
When he had come near her, the woman asked, “Are you Joab?”
“I am,” he replied.
“Listen to the words of your servant,” she said to him.
He answered, “I’m listening.”
Joab protested: “Never! I do not want to destroy!
That is not my intention. There is a man named Sheba son of Bichri, from the hill country of Ephraim, who has rebelled against King David. Deliver this one man, and I will withdraw from the city.”
The woman replied to Joab, “All right. His head will be thrown over the wall to you.”
Joab commanded the whole army of Israel;
Naharai the Beerothite, the armor-bearer for Joab son of Zeruiah,
So the king said to Joab, the commander of his army, “Go through all the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba and register the troops so I can know their number.”
Joab replied to the king, “May the Lord your God multiply the troops 100 times more than they are
Joab gave the king the total of the registration of the troops. There were 800,000 fighting men from Israel and 500,000 men from Judah.
He conspired
King Solomon answered his mother, “Why are you requesting Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Since he is my elder brother,
Benaiah son of Jehoiada
Earlier, when David was in Edom, Joab, the commander of the army, had gone to bury the dead and had struck down every male in Edom.
For Joab and all Israel had remained there six months, until he had killed every male in Edom.
When Hadad heard in Egypt that David rested with his fathers and that Joab, the commander of the army, was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, “Let me leave, so I can go to my own country.”
and Seraiah fathered Joab, the ancestor of those in the Valley of Craftsmen,
David said, “Whoever is the first to kill a Jebusite will become chief commander.” Joab
He built up the city all the way around, from the supporting terraces to the surrounding parts, and Joab restored the rest of the city.
Naharai the Beerothite, the armor-bearer for Joab son of Zeruiah,