JOAB

Passages on this topic · 143

• 2 Samuel 2:13

  Joab the son of Zeruiah and David’s servants went out, and met them by the pool of Gibeon; and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.

• 2 Samuel 2:14

  Abner said to Joab, “Please let the young men arise and play before us!” Joab said, “Let them arise!”

• 2 Samuel 2:15

  Then they arose and went over by number: twelve for Benjamin and for Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of David’s servants.

• 2 Samuel 2:16

  They each caught his opponent by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow’s side; so they fell down together: therefore that place in Gibeon was called Helkath Hazzurim.

• 2 Samuel 2:17

  The battle was very severe that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before David’s servants.

• 2 Samuel 2:18

  The three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild gazelle.

• 2 Samuel 2:19

  Asahel pursued Abner; and in going he didn’t turn to the right hand or to the left from following Abner.

• 2 Samuel 2:20

  Then Abner looked behind him, and said, “Is that you, Asahel?” He answered, “It is.”

• 2 Samuel 2:21

  Abner said to him, “Turn aside to your right hand or to your left, and grab one of the young men, and take his armor.” But Asahel would not turn aside from following him.

• 2 Samuel 2:22

  Abner said again to Asahel, “Turn aside from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I look Joab your brother in the face?”

• 2 Samuel 2:23

  However he refused to turn aside. 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.

• 2 Samuel 2:24

  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 2:25

  The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one band, and stood on the top of a hill.

• 2 Samuel 2:26

  Then 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?”

• 2 Samuel 2:27

  Joab 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.”

• 2 Samuel 2:28

  So Joab blew the trumpet; and all the people stood still, and pursued Israel no more, and they fought no more.

• 2 Samuel 2:29

  Abner and his men went all that night through the Arabah; and they passed over the Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and came to Mahanaim.

• 2 Samuel 2:30

  Joab returned from following Abner; and when he had gathered all the people together, nineteen men of David’s and Asahel were missing.

• 2 Samuel 2:31

  But David’s servants had struck Benjamin and of Abner’s men so that three hundred sixty men died.

• 2 Samuel 2:32

  They took up Asahel, and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was in Bethlehem. Joab and his men went all night, and the day broke on them at Hebron.

• 2 Samuel 3:27

  When Abner was 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 8:16

  Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder,

• 2 Samuel 10:7

  When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army of the mighty men.

• 2 Samuel 10:8

  The 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.

• 2 Samuel 10:9

  Now 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.

• 2 Samuel 10:10

  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.

• 2 Samuel 10:11

  He 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.

• 2 Samuel 10:12

  Be courageous, and let us be strong for our people, and for the cities of our God; and may Yahweh do what seems good to him.”

• 2 Samuel 10:13

  So Joab and the people who were with him came near to the battle against the Syrians, and they fled before him.

• 2 Samuel 10:14

  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.

• 2 Samuel 11:1

  At the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem.

• 2 Samuel 11:15

  He wrote in the letter, saying, “Send Uriah to the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck, and die.”

• 2 Samuel 11:16

  When Joab kept watch on the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were.

• 2 Samuel 11:17

  The men of the city went out, and fought with Joab. Some of the people fell, even of David’s servants; and Uriah the Hittite died also.

• 2 Samuel 11:18

  Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;

• 2 Samuel 11:19

  and he commanded the messenger, saying, “When you have finished telling all the things concerning the war to the king,

• 2 Samuel 11:20

  it shall be that, if the king’s wrath arise, and he asks you, ‘Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Didn’t you know that they would shoot from the wall?

• 2 Samuel 11:21

  Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Didn’t a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?’ then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.’”

• 2 Samuel 11:22

  So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for.

• 2 Samuel 11:23

  The messenger said to David, “The men prevailed against us, and came out to us into the field, and we were on them even to the entrance of the gate.

• 2 Samuel 11:24

  The shooters shot at your servants from off the wall; and some of the king’s servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.”

• 2 Samuel 11:25

  Then David said to the messenger, “Tell Joab, ‘Don’t let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle stronger against the city, and overthrow it.’ Encourage him.”

• 2 Samuel 12:26

  Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.

• 2 Samuel 12:27

  Joab sent messengers to David, and said, “I have fought against Rabbah. Yes, I have taken the city of waters.

• 2 Samuel 12:28

  Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it; lest I take the city, and it be called by my name.”

• 2 Samuel 12:29

  David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it.

• 2 Samuel 14:1

  Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was toward Absalom.

• 2 Samuel 14:2

  Joab sent to Tekoa, and brought a wise woman from there, and said to her, “Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don’t anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.

• 2 Samuel 14:3

  Go in to the king, and speak like this to him.” So Joab put the words in her mouth.

• 2 Samuel 14:4

  When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, showed respect, and said, “Help, O king!”

• 2 Samuel 14:5

  The king said to her, “What ails you?” She answered, “Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

• 2 Samuel 14:6

  Your servant had two sons, and they both fought together in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him.

• 2 Samuel 14:7

  Behold, the whole family has risen against your servant, and they say, ‘Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.’ Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.”

• 2 Samuel 14:8

  The king said to the woman, “Go to your house, and I will give a command concerning you.”

• 2 Samuel 14:9

  The woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord, O king, may the iniquity be on me, and on my father’s house; and may the king and his throne be guiltless.”

• 2 Samuel 14:10

  The king said, “Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he will not bother you any more.”

• 2 Samuel 14:11

  Then she said, “Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son.” He said, “As Yahweh lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth.”

• 2 Samuel 14:12

  Then the woman said, “Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king.” He said, “Say on.”

• 2 Samuel 14:13

  The woman said, “Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished one.

• 2 Samuel 14:14

  For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

• 2 Samuel 14:15

  Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid. Your servant said, ‘I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.’

• 2 Samuel 14:16

  For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

• 2 Samuel 14:17

  Then your servant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.’”

• 2 Samuel 14:18

  Then the king answered the woman, “Please don’t hide anything from me that I ask you.” The woman said, “Let my lord the king now speak.”

• 2 Samuel 14:19

  The king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” The woman answered, “As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab urged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your servant;

• 2 Samuel 14:20

  to change the face of the matter has your servant Joab done this thing. My lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.”

• 2 Samuel 14:21

  The king said to Joab, “Behold now, I have done this thing. Go therefore, and bring the young man Absalom back.”

• 2 Samuel 14:22

  Joab fell to the ground on his face, showed respect, and blessed the king. Joab said, “Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord, king, in that the king has performed the request of his servant.”

• 2 Samuel 14:23

  So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

• 2 Samuel 14:24

  The king said, “Let him return to his own house, but let him not see my face.” So Absalom returned to his own house, and didn’t see the king’s face.

• 2 Samuel 14:29

  Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king, but he would not come to him. Then he sent again a second time, but he would not come.

• 2 Samuel 14:30

  Therefore he said to his servants, “Behold, Joab’s field is near mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire.” So Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.

• 2 Samuel 14:31

  Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom to his house, and said to him, “Why have your servants set my field on fire?”

• 2 Samuel 14:32

  Absalom answered Joab, “Behold, I sent to you, saying, ‘Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, “Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king’s face, and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me.”’”

• 2 Samuel 14:33

  So Joab came to the king, and told him; and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king; and the king kissed Absalom.

• 2 Samuel 17:25

  Absalom 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.

• 2 Samuel 19:1

  Joab was told, “Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom.”

• 2 Samuel 19:2

  The victory that day was turned into mourning among all the people; for the people heard it said that day, “The king grieves for his son.”

• 2 Samuel 19:3

  The people sneaked into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

• 2 Samuel 19:4

  The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, “My son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!”

• 2 Samuel 19:5

  Joab came into the house to the king, and said, “Today you have shamed the faces of all your servants, who today have saved your life, and the lives of your sons and of your daughters, and the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines;

• 2 Samuel 19:6

  in that you love those who hate you, and hate those who love you. For you have declared today, that princes and servants are nothing to you. For today I perceive that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died today, then it would have pleased you well.

• 2 Samuel 19:7

  Now therefore arise, go out, and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, 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.”

• 2 Samuel 19:8

  Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. They told to all the people, saying, “Behold, the king is sitting in the gate.” All the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his tent.

• 2 Samuel 19:13

  Say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren’t captain of the army before me continually instead of Joab.’”

• 2 Samuel 20:8

  When 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.

• 2 Samuel 20:9

  Joab said to Amasa, “Is it well with you, my brother?” Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.

• 2 Samuel 20:10

  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.

• 2 Samuel 20:11

  One of Joab’s young men stood by him, and said, “He who favors Joab, and he who is for David, let him follow Joab!”

• 2 Samuel 20:12

  Amasa 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.

• 2 Samuel 20:13

  When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.

• 2 Samuel 20:16

  Then a wise woman cried out of the city, “Hear, hear! Please say to Joab, ‘Come near here, that I may speak with you.’”

• 2 Samuel 20:17

  He came near to her; and the woman said, “Are you Joab?” He answered, “I am.” Then she said to him, “Hear the words of your servant.” He answered, “I’m listening.”

• 2 Samuel 20:18

  Then she spoke, saying, “They used to say in old times, ‘They shall surely ask counsel at Abel;’ and so they settled a matter.

• 2 Samuel 20:19

  I am among those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up Yahweh’s inheritance?”

• 2 Samuel 20:20

  Joab answered, “Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.

• 2 Samuel 20:21

  The matter is not so. But a man of the hill country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against the king, even against David. Just deliver him, and I will depart from the city.” The woman said to Joab, “Behold, his head will be thrown to you over the wall.”

• 2 Samuel 20:22

  Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. They cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. He blew the trumpet, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. Then Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.

• 2 Samuel 20:23

  Now Joab was over all the army of Israel, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites,

• 2 Samuel 24:3

  Joab said to the king, “Now may Yahweh 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?”

• 2 Samuel 24:4

  Notwithstanding, the king’s word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the army. Joab and the captains of the army went out from the presence of the king to count the people of Israel.

• 2 Samuel 24:5

  They passed over the Jordan, and encamped in Aroer, on the right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad, and to Jazer;

• 2 Samuel 24:6

  then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi; and they came to Dan Jaan, and around to Sidon,

• 2 Samuel 24:7

  and came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites; and they went out to the south of Judah, at Beersheba.

• 2 Samuel 24:8

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

• 2 Samuel 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.

• 1 Kings 1:7

  He conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest; and they followed Adonijah and helped him.

• 1 Kings 2:5

  “Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he 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 shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was around his waist, and in his shoes that were on his feet.

• 1 Kings 2:28

  This news came to Joab; for Joab had followed Adonijah, although he didn’t follow Absalom. Joab fled to Yahweh’s Tent, and held onto the horns of the altar.

• 1 Kings 2:29

  King Solomon was told, “Joab has fled to Yahweh’s Tent, and behold, he is by the altar.” Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, fall on him.”

• 1 Kings 2:30

  Benaiah came to Yahweh’s Tent, and said to him, “Thus says the king, ‘Come out!’” He said, “No; but I will die here.” Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, “Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.”

• 1 Kings 2:31

  The king said to him, “Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him; that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father’s house.

• 1 Kings 2:32

  Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn’t know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.

• 1 Kings 2:33

  So their blood will return on the head of Joab, and on the head of his offspring forever. But for David, for his offspring, for his house, and for his throne, there will be peace forever from Yahweh.”

• 1 Kings 2:34

  Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell on him, and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.

• 1 Kings 11:16

  (for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom);

• 1 Chronicles 2:16

  and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three.

• 1 Chronicles 2:54

  The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth Beth Joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.

• 1 Chronicles 4:14

  Meonothai became the father of Ophrah: and Seraiah became the father of Joab the father of Ge Harashim; for they were craftsmen.

• 1 Chronicles 11:6

  David said, “Whoever strikes the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain.” Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, and was made chief.

• 1 Chronicles 18:15

  Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;

• 1 Chronicles 19:6

  When the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent one thousand talents of silver to hire chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, out of Aram-maacah, and out of Zobah.

• 1 Chronicles 19:7

  So they hired for themselves thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king of Maacah with his people, who came and encamped near Medeba. The children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.

• 1 Chronicles 19:8

  When David heard of it, he sent Joab with all the army of the mighty men.

• 1 Chronicles 19:9

  The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the gate of the city; and the kings who had come were by themselves in the field.

• 1 Chronicles 19:10

  Now 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.

• 1 Chronicles 19:11

  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.

• 1 Chronicles 19:12

  He 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.

• 1 Chronicles 19:13

  Be courageous, and let us be strong for our people and for the cities of our God. May Yahweh do that which seems good to him.”

• 1 Chronicles 19:14

  So Joab and the people who were with him came near to the front of the Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him.

• 1 Chronicles 19:15

  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.

• 1 Chronicles 20:1

  At the time of the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, Joab led out the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. Joab struck Rabbah, and overthrew it.

• 1 Chronicles 20:2

  David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it. It was set on David’s head, and he brought very much plunder out of the city.

• 1 Chronicles 21:3

  Joab said, “May Yahweh 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?”

• 1 Chronicles 21:4

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

• 1 Chronicles 21:5

  Joab gave up 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.

• 1 Chronicles 26:28

  All that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had dedicated, whoever had dedicated anything, it was under the hand of Shelomoth, and of his brothers.

• 1 Chronicles 27:23

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

• 1 Chronicles 27:24

  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.

• 1 Chronicles 27:34

  After Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar. Joab was the captain of the king’s army.

• Ezra 2:6

  The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred twelve.

• Ezra 8:9

  Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel; and with him two hundred eighteen males.

• Nehemiah 7:11

  The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred eighteen.