1 Samuel 26:6 mention
Then David answered and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab, saying, “Who
2 Samuel 2:13 mention
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
2 Samuel 2:14 event
Abner said to Joab, “Please let the young men arise and play before us!” Joab said, “Let them arise!”
2 Samuel 2:18 mention
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 2:22 event
Abner said again to Asahel, “Turn away from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I look J
2 Samuel 2:24 event
But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. The sun went down when they had come to the hill of Ammah, that lies before Giah by
2 Samuel 2:26 event
Then Abner called to Joab, and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? Don’t you know that it will be bitterness in the l
2 Samuel 2:27 event
Joab said, “As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people would have gone away, and not eac
2 Samuel 2:28 event
So Joab blew the trumpet; and all the people stood still, and pursued Israel no more, and they fought no more.
2 Samuel 2:30 event
Joab returned from following Abner; and when he had gathered all the people together, nineteen men of David’s and Asahel
2 Samuel 2:32 event
They took up Asahel, and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was in Bethlehem. Joab and his men went all night,
2 Samuel 3:22 event
Behold, David’s servants and Joab came from a raid, and brought in a great plunder with them; but Abner was not with Dav
2 Samuel 3:23 mention
When Joab and all the army who was with him had come, they told Joab, “Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has
2 Samuel 3:24 event
Then Joab came to the king, and said, “What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you. Why is it that you have sent him a
2 Samuel 3:26 event
When Joab had come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the well of Sirah; but
2 Samuel 3:27 event
When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck
2 Samuel 3:29 mention
Let 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 an
2 Samuel 3:30 event
So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
2 Samuel 3:31 event
David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth, a
2 Samuel 8:16 mention
Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder,
2 Samuel 10:7 event
When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army of the mighty men.
2 Samuel 10:9 event
Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and p
2 Samuel 10:13 event
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 mention
When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai, and entered into the city.
2 Samuel 11:1 mention
At the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; an
2 Samuel 11:6 event
David sent to Joab, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” Joab sent Uriah to David.
2 Samuel 11:7 event
When Uriah had come to him, David asked him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.
2 Samuel 11:11 event
Uriah said to David, “The ark, Israel, and Judah, are staying in tents; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord, ar
2 Samuel 11:14 event
In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
2 Samuel 11:16 mention
When Joab kept watch on the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were.
2 Samuel 11:17 event
The men of the city went out, and fought with Joab. Some of the people fell, even of David’s servants; and Uriah the Hit
2 Samuel 11:18 event
Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;
2 Samuel 11:22 event
So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for.
2 Samuel 11:25 event
Then David said to the messenger, “Tell Joab, ‘Don’t let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as
2 Samuel 12:26 mention
Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.
2 Samuel 12:27 event
Joab sent messengers to David, and said, “I have fought against Rabbah. Yes, I have taken the city of waters.
2 Samuel 14:1 mention
Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was toward Absalom.
2 Samuel 14:2 event
Joab sent to Tekoa, and brought a wise woman from there, and said to her, “Please act like a mourner, and put on mournin
2 Samuel 14:3 mention
Go in to the king, and speak like this to him.” So Joab put the words in her mouth.
2 Samuel 14:19 event
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
2 Samuel 14:20 mention
to change the face of the matter has your servant Joab done this thing. My lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an a
2 Samuel 14:21 event
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 event
Joab fell to the ground on his face, showed respect, and blessed the king. Joab said, “Today your servant knows that I h
2 Samuel 14:23 event
So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 14:29 event
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
2 Samuel 14:30 event
Therefore he said to his servants, “Behold, Joab’s field is near mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire.”
2 Samuel 14:31 event
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 event
Absalom answered Joab, “Behold, I sent to you, saying, ‘Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, “Why have I
2 Samuel 14:33 event
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 hi
2 Samuel 17:25 mention
Absalom set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who
2 Samuel 18:2 mention
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 Ze
2 Samuel 18:5 event
The king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, “Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom.”
2 Samuel 18:10 event
A certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, “Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.”
2 Samuel 18:11 event
Joab 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
2 Samuel 18:12 event
The man said to Joab, “Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I still wouldn’t stretch out my h
2 Samuel 18:14 event
Then Joab said, “I’m not going to wait like this with you.” He took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the
2 Samuel 18:15 event
Ten young men who bore Joab’s armor surrounded and struck Absalom, and killed him.
2 Samuel 18:16 event
Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held the people back.
2 Samuel 18:20 event
Joab said to him, “You must not be the bearer of news today, but you must carry news another day. But today you must car
2 Samuel 18:21 event
Then Joab said to the Cushite, “Go, tell the king what you have seen!” The Cushite bowed himself to Joab, and ran.
2 Samuel 18:22 mention
Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said yet again to Joab, “But come what may, please let me also run after the Cushite.” Joa
2 Samuel 18:29 event
The king said, “Is it well with the young man Absalom?” Ahimaaz answered, “When Joab sent the king’s servant, even me yo
2 Samuel 19:1 mention
Joab was told, “Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom.”
2 Samuel 19:5 event
Joab came into the house to the king, and said, “Today you have shamed the faces of all your servants, who today have sa
2 Samuel 19:13 mention
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
2 Samuel 20:7 mention
Joab’s men went out after him, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men; and they went out of Jeru
2 Samuel 20:8 event
When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Joab was clothed in his apparel of war th
2 Samuel 20:9 event
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 mention
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 bowe
2 Samuel 20:11 event
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 20:13 mention
When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.
2 Samuel 20:15 event
They came and besieged him in Abel of Beth Maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the r
2 Samuel 20:16 event
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 mention
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 y
2 Samuel 20:20 event
Joab answered, “Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.
2 Samuel 20:21 mention
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
2 Samuel 20:22 mention
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
2 Samuel 20:23 mention
Now Joab was over all the army of Israel, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites,
2 Samuel 23:18 mention
Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the three. He lifted up his spear against three hundred a
2 Samuel 23:24 mention
Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty: Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,