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Then David asked Ahimelech the Hittite and Joab’s brother Abishai son of Zeruiah, “Who will go with me into the camp to Saul?”

“I’ll go with you,” answered Abishai.

So Joab son of Zeruiah and David’s soldiers marched out and met them by the pool of Gibeon. The two groups took up positions on opposite sides of the pool.

Verse ConceptsPoolsOpposite Sides

Then Abner said to Joab, “Let’s have the young men get up and compete in front of us.”

“Let them get up,” Joab replied.

Verse ConceptsAmusementsLeisure, And PastimesRecreationBoxing

The three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Asahel was a fast runner, like one of the wild gazelles.

Verse ConceptsThree ChildrenFast RunnersDeer Etc.Deer

Once again, Abner warned Asahel, “Stop chasing me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How could I ever look your brother Joab in the face?”

but Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. By sunset, they had gone as far as the hill of Ammah, which is opposite Giah on the way to the wilderness of Gibeon.

Then Abner called out to Joab: “Must the sword devour forever? Don’t you realize this will only end in bitterness? How long before you tell the troops to stop pursuing their brothers?”

Verse ConceptsPursuing PeopleEternal Judgement

“As God lives,” Joab replied, “if you had not spoken up, the troops wouldn’t have stopped pursuing their brothers until morning.”

Then Joab blew the ram’s horn, and all the troops stopped; they no longer pursued Israel or continued to fight.

Verse ConceptsTrumpetCessationStopping FightingTrumpets To Stop Fighting

When Joab had turned back from pursuing Abner, he gathered all the troops. In addition to Asahel, 19 of David’s soldiers were missing,

Verse ConceptsNineteen

Afterward, they carried Asahel to his father’s tomb in Bethlehem and buried him. Then Joab and his men marched all night and reached Hebron at dawn.

Verse ConceptsDawnTombsWalking All NightAnother's Burial Place

Just then David’s soldiers and Joab returned from a raid and brought a large amount of plundered goods with them. Abner was not with David in Hebron because David had dismissed him, and he had gone in peace.

Verse ConceptsSpoils Of War

When Joab and all his army arrived, Joab was informed, “Abner son of Ner came to see the king, the king dismissed him, and he went in peace.”

Verse ConceptsSoldiers

Joab went to the king and said, “What have you done? Look here, Abner came to you. Why did you dismiss him? Now he’s getting away.

Verse ConceptsWhat Do You Do?

Then Joab left David and sent messengers after Abner. They brought him back from the well of Sirah, but David was unaware of it.

Verse ConceptsMessengers Sent OutIgnorant Of Facts

May it hang over Joab’s head and his father’s whole house, and may the house of Joab never be without someone who has a discharge or a skin disease, or a man who can only work a spindle, or someone who falls by the sword or starves.”

Verse ConceptsLeprosyBodyLackWeakness, PhysicalNo FoodDischargesWithout Strength

Joab and his brother Abishai killed Abner because he had put their brother Asahel to death in the battle at Gibeon.

Verse ConceptsWhy People Did ThingsKilling Named Individuals

David then ordered Joab and all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourn over Abner.” And King David walked behind the funeral procession.

Verse ConceptsGesturesClothingClothSackcloth And AshesPreparation For Burial

Joab son of Zeruiah was over the army;
Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was court historian;

Verse ConceptsScribesRecorders

David heard about it and sent Joab and all the fighting men.

Verse ConceptsWarriorsEarthly Armies

When Joab saw that there was a battle line in front of him and another behind him, he chose some men out of all the elite troops of Israel and lined up in battle formation to engage the Arameans.

Verse ConceptsFront And BackSpiritual Warfarereinforcement

“If the Arameans are too strong for me,” Joab said, “then you will be my help. However, if the Ammonites are too strong for you, I’ll come to help you.

Verse ConceptsPeople Helping

Joab and his troops advanced to fight against the Arameans, and they fled before him.

Verse ConceptsPeoples Who Fled

When the Ammonites saw that the Arameans had fled, they too fled before Abishai and entered the city. So Joab withdrew from the attack against the Ammonites and went to Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsFugitivesPeoples Who Fled

In the spring when kings march out to war, David sent Joab with his officers and all Israel. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah, but David remained in Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsJerusalem, History OfSpringSiegesNature Of KingsReady For WarThe Nations Attackedspringtime

David sent orders to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent Uriah to David.

When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab and the troops were doing and how the war was going.

Uriah answered David, “The ark, Israel, and Judah are dwelling in tents, and my master Joab and his soldiers are camping in the open field. How can I enter my house to eat and drink and sleep with my wife? As surely as you live and by your life, I will not do this!”

Verse ConceptsEncampmentsOne FleshTribes Of IsraelAbsence Of SexThe Ark Moved Around

The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.

Verse ConceptsWriting

When Joab was besieging the city, he put Uriah in the place where he knew the best enemy soldiers were.

Verse ConceptsMan Appointing

Then the men of the city came out and attacked Joab, and some of the men from David’s soldiers fell in battle; Uriah the Hittite also died.

Verse ConceptsKilling Named Individuals

Joab sent someone to report to David all the details of the battle.

Verse ConceptsTelling Of Happenings

Then the messenger left.

When he arrived, he reported to David all that Joab had sent him to tell.

Verse ConceptsMessengerBeauty, In Women

David told the messenger, “Say this to Joab: ‘Don’t let this matter upset you because the sword devours all alike. Intensify your fight against the city and demolish it.’ Encourage him.”

Verse Conceptsencouragement, examples ofResigned To DeathEncourage Others!

Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and captured the royal fortress.

Verse ConceptsCitadelsCapturing Cities

Then Joab sent messengers to David to say, “I have fought against Rabbah and have also captured the water supply.

Verse ConceptsMessengers Sent Out

Joab son of Zeruiah observed that the king’s mind was on Absalom.

Verse ConceptsAffection, ExpressingHuman AffectionHeart, Human

So Joab sent someone to Tekoa to bring a clever woman from there. He told her, “Pretend to be in mourning: dress in mourning clothes and don’t put on any oil. Act like a woman who has been mourning for the dead for a long time.

Verse ConceptsAnointing With OilBereavement, Expression OfMourningOintmentUnhappinessAnointing OneselfPretendingDistinctive Clothing

Go to the king and speak these words to him.” Then Joab told her exactly what to say.

Verse ConceptsSpokesmen

The king asked, “Did Joab put you up to all this?”

The woman answered. “As you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or left from all my lord the king says. Yes, your servant Joab is the one who gave orders to me; he told your servant exactly what to say.

Verse ConceptsSpokesmenTurning To Right And Left

Joab your servant has done this to address the issue indirectly, but my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the Angel of God, knowing everything on earth.”

Verse ConceptsWisdom, Human NatureWisdom, Human ImportanceThe Angel Of GodLike Angels

Then the king said to Joab, “I hereby grant this request. Go, bring back the young man Absalom.”

Verse ConceptsReinstating People

Joab fell with his face to the ground in homage and praised the king. “Today,” Joab said, “your servant knows I have found favor with you, my lord the king, because the king has granted the request of your servant.”

Verse ConceptsBowing Before David

So Joab got up, went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

Then Absalom sent for Joab in order to send him to the king, but Joab was unwilling to come. So he sent again, a second time, but he still wouldn’t come.

Verse ConceptsImpatienceOthers Summoning

Then Absalom said to his servants, “See, Joab has a field right next to mine, and he has barley there. Go and set fire to it!” So Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.

Verse ConceptsGrainArsonBurning Plants

Then Joab came to Absalom’s house and demanded, “Why did your servants set my field on fire?”

Verse ConceptsWhy Do You Do This?

“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.”

Verse ConceptsPeople VisitingOthers SummoningApproval To Kill Oneself

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.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingKissingReinstatementKissesBowing Before DavidKings Summoning

Now Absalom had appointed Amasa over the army in Joab’s place. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra the Israelite; Ithra had married Abigail daughter of Nahash. Abigail was a sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.

Verse ConceptsMarital SexMarital Sex BetweenNamed Sisters

He then sent out the troops, a third under Joab, a third under Joab’s brother Abishai son of Zeruiah, and a third under Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the troops, “I will also march out with you.”

Verse ConceptsFractions, One ThirdFighting TogetherDividing Into Three Groups

The king commanded Joab, Abishai, and Ittai, “Treat the young man Absalom gently for my sake.” All the people heard the king’s orders to all the commanders about Absalom.

Verse ConceptsParental LoveSoft TreatmentThe King's Orders

One of the men saw him and informed Joab. He said, “I just saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree!”

Verse ConceptsTelling Of People's Situations

“You just saw him!” Joab exclaimed. “Why didn’t you strike him to the ground right there? I would have given you 10 silver pieces and a belt!”

Verse ConceptsArmourBeltsArmor ProtectionPeople Giving Clothes

The man replied to Joab, “Even if I had the weight of 1,000 pieces of silver in my hand, I would not raise my hand against the king’s son. For we heard the king command you, Abishai, and Ittai, ‘Protect the young man Absalom for me.’

Verse ConceptsFraudCoinageThe King's Orders

Joab said, “I’m not going to waste time with you!” He then took three spears in his hand and thrust them into Absalom’s heart while he was still alive in the oak tree,

Verse ConceptsAssassinations, CompletedHeart, HumanSpearsPiercingsThree Other Things

and 10 young men who were Joab’s armor-bearers surrounded Absalom, struck him, and killed him.

Verse ConceptsTen People

Afterward, Joab blew the ram’s horn, and the troops broke off their pursuit of Israel because Joab restrained them.

Verse ConceptsTrumpets To Stop Fighting

Joab replied to him, “You are not the man to take good news today. You may do it another day, but today you aren’t taking good news, because the king’s son is dead.”

Joab then said to the Cushite, “Go tell the king what you have seen.” The Cushite bowed to Joab and took off running.

Verse ConceptsRunning With News

However, Ahimaaz son of Zadok persisted and said to Joab, “No matter what, please let me also run behind the Cushite!”

Joab replied, “My son, why do you want to run since you won’t get a reward?”

“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.

Verse ConceptsOutrunning

The king asked, “Is the young man Absalom all right?”

Ahimaaz replied, “When Joab sent the king’s servant and your servant, I saw a big disturbance, but I don’t know what it was.”

Verse ConceptsConfusionCareServanthood, In Society

It was reported to Joab, “The king is weeping. He’s mourning over Absalom.”

Verse ConceptsUnhappinessTelling Of People's SituationsMourning The Death Of Others

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.

Verse ConceptsConcubinesIndividuals Saving Others

And tell Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my flesh and blood? May God punish me and do so severely if you don’t become commander of the army from now on instead of Joab!’”

Verse ConceptsTreasonExchanging Of LeadersSame Bone And Flesh

So Joab’s men, the Cherethites, the Pelethites, and all the warriors marched out under Abishai’s command; they left Jerusalem to pursue Sheba son of Bichri.

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.

Verse ConceptsBreastplatesArmourBeltsArmor ProtectionBronze Armour

Joab asked Amasa, “Are you well, my brother?” Then with his right hand Joab grabbed Amasa by the beard to kiss him.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingConfidence BetrayedBeardsHealthKissesSalutationsFacial Hair

Amasa was not on guard against the sword in Joab’s hand, and Joab stabbed him in the stomach with it and spilled his intestines out on the ground. Joab did not stab him again for Amasa was dead. Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bichri.

Verse ConceptsAssassinations, CompletedBetrayalStomachsBowelsAnatomyIntestinesKilling Named Individuals

One of Joab’s young men had stood over Amasa saying, “Whoever favors Joab and whoever is for David, follow Joab!”

Verse ConceptsPeople Following People

When he was removed from the highway, all the men passed by and followed Joab to pursue Sheba son of Bichri.

Joab’s troops came and besieged Sheba in Abel of Beth-maacah. They built an assault ramp against the outer wall of the city. While all the troops with Joab were battering the wall to make it collapse,

Verse ConceptsBattering ramsSiegesWallsSiege MoundsPeople Attacking Their Own

a wise woman called out from the city, “Listen! Listen! Please tell Joab to come here and let me speak with him.”

Verse ConceptsDuplicating Words

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.”

Verse ConceptsIs It Really?

Joab protested: “Never! I do not want to destroy!

Verse ConceptsFar Be It!

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.”

Verse ConceptsHanding Over People

The woman went to all the people with her wise counsel, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri and threw it to Joab. So he blew the ram’s horn, and they dispersed from the city, each to his own tent. Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsTrumpetBeheadingTrumpets To Stop FightingGroups going home

Joab commanded the whole army of Israel; Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and Pelethites;

Abishai, Joab’s brother and son of Zeruiah, was leader of the Three. He raised his spear against 300 men and killed them, gaining a reputation among the Three.

Verse ConceptsThree To Four HundredThree Hundred And AboveKilling Many People

Among the Thirty were:

Joab’s brother Asahel,
Elhanan son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

Verse ConceptsThirty

Zelek the Ammonite,
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.”

Verse ConceptsCensus

Joab replied to the king, “May the Lord your God multiply the troops 100 times more than they are—while my lord the king looks on! But why does my lord the king want to do this?”

Verse ConceptsOne HundredGod Multipling PeopleAdding People

Yet the king’s order prevailed over Joab and the commanders of the army. So Joab and the commanders of the army left the king’s presence to register the troops of Israel.

Verse ConceptsStubbornnessSelf WillCensus

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.

Verse ConceptsSwordsTribes Of IsraelThree To Nine Hundred Thousand

He conspired with Joab son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest. They supported Adonijah,

Verse ConceptsGroups Helping

He has lavishly sacrificed oxen, fattened cattle, and sheep. He invited all the king’s sons, Abiathar the priest, and Joab the commander of the army, but he did not invite your servant Solomon.

Adonijah and all the invited guests who were with him heard the noise as they finished eating. Joab heard the sound of the ram’s horn and said, “Why is the town in such an uproar?”

Verse ConceptsGuestsMusic To CelebrateHearing Things

“You also know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me and what he did to the two commanders of Israel’s army, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether. He murdered them in a time of peace to avenge blood shed in war. He spilled that blood on his own waistband and on the sandals of his feet.

Verse ConceptsBeltsSandalsShedding

King Solomon answered his mother, “Why are you requesting Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Since he is my elder brother, you might as well ask the kingship for him, for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab son of Zeruiah.”

Verse ConceptsBrothersThe Kingdom Of Others

The news reached Joab. Since he had supported Adonijah but not Absalom, Joab fled to the Lord’s tabernacle and took hold of the horns of the altar.

Verse ConceptsHornsConspiracy

It was reported to King Solomon: “Joab has fled to the Lord’s tabernacle and is now beside the altar.” Then Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada and told him, “Go and strike him down!”

Verse ConceptsDeath penalty

So Benaiah went to the tabernacle and said to Joab, “This is what the king says: ‘Come out!’”

But Joab said, “No, for I will die here.”

So Benaiah took a message back to the king, “This is what Joab said, and this is how he answered me.”

Verse ConceptsGoing Outside

The king said to him, “Do just as he says. Strike him down and bury him in order to remove from me and from my father’s house the blood that Joab shed without just cause.

Verse ConceptsInnocent BloodSheddingKilling Named Individuals

The Lord will bring back his own blood on his head because he struck down two men more righteous and better than he, without my father David’s knowledge. With his sword, Joab murdered Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.

Verse ConceptsGod Makes Evil ReboundGod Will RequiteIgnorant Of Facts

Their blood will come back on Joab’s head and on the head of his descendants forever, but for David, his descendants, his dynasty, and his throne, there will be peace from the Lord forever.”

Verse ConceptsBurials, Places OfHeadsChrist Reigning ForeverMen Of Peace

Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up, struck down Joab, and put him to death. He was buried at his house in the wilderness.

Verse ConceptsSwordsLiving In The WildernessKilling Named Individuals

Then the king appointed Benaiah son of Jehoiada in Joab’s place over the army, and he appointed Zadok the priest in Abiathar’s place.

Verse ConceptsSolomon, Character OfExchanging Of Leaders