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 will go down with me to Saul to the camp?” Abishai said, “I will go down with you.”
Preview context 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 the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.
Preview context 2 Samuel 2:14 event
Abner said to Joab, “Please let the young men arise and play before us!” Joab said, “Let them arise!”
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The three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild gazelle.
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Abner said again to Asahel, “Turn away from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I look Joab your brother in the face?”
Preview context 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 the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.
Preview context 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 latter end? How long will it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?”
Preview context 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 each followed his brother.”
Preview context 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.
Preview context 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 were missing.
Preview context 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, and the day broke on them at Hebron.
Preview context 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 David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he had gone in peace.
Preview context 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 sent him away, and he has gone in peace.”
Preview context 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 away, and he is already gone?
Preview context 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 David didn’t know it.
Preview context 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 him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
Preview context 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 issue, or who is a leper, or who leans on a staff, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks bread.”
Preview context 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.
Preview context 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, and mourn in front of Abner.” King David followed the bier.
Preview context 2 Samuel 8:16 mention
Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder,
Preview context 2 Samuel 10:7 event
When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army of the mighty men.
Preview context 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 put them in array against the Syrians.
Preview context 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.
Preview context 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. Then Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.
Preview context 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; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem.
Preview context 2 Samuel 11:6 event
David sent to Joab, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” Joab sent Uriah to David.
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When Uriah had come to him, David asked him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.
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Uriah said to David, “The ark, Israel, and Judah, are staying in tents; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open field. Shall I then go into my house to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing!”
Preview context 2 Samuel 11:14 event
In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
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When Joab kept watch on the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were.
Preview context 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 Hittite died also.
Preview context 2 Samuel 11:18 event
Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;
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So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for.
Preview context 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 another. Make your battle stronger against the city, and overthrow it.’ Encourage him.”
Preview context 2 Samuel 12:26 mention
Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.
Preview context 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.
Preview context 2 Samuel 14:1 mention
Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was toward Absalom.
Preview context 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 mourning clothing, please, and don’t anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.
Preview context 2 Samuel 14:3 mention
Go in to the king, and speak like this to him.” So Joab put the words in her mouth.
Preview context 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 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;
Preview context 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 angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.”
Preview context 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.”
Preview context 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 have found favor in your sight, my lord, king, in that the king has performed the request of his servant.”
Preview context 2 Samuel 14:23 event
So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
Preview context 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 he would not come.
Preview context 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.” So Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.
Preview context 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?”
Preview context 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 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.”’”
Preview context 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 his face to the ground before the king; and the king kissed Absalom.
Preview context 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 went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.
Preview context 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 Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the people, “I will also surely go out with you myself.”
Preview context 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.” All the people heard when the king commanded all the captains concerning Absalom.
Preview context 2 Samuel 18:10 event
A certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, “Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.”
Preview context 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 given you ten pieces of silver, and a sash.”
Preview context 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 hand against the king’s son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘Beware that no one touch the young man Absalom.’
Preview context 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 heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the middle of the oak.
Preview context 2 Samuel 18:15 event
Ten young men who bore Joab’s armor surrounded and struck Absalom, and killed him.
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Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held the people back.
Preview context 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 carry no news, because the king’s son is dead.”
Preview context 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.
Preview context 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.” Joab said, “Why do you want to run, my son, since that you will have no reward for the news?”
Preview context 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 your servant, I saw a great tumult, but I don’t know what it was.”
Preview context 2 Samuel 19:1 mention
Joab was told, “Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom.”
Preview context 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 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;
Preview context 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 me continually instead of Joab.’”
Preview context 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 Jerusalem, to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.
Preview context 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 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.
Preview context 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.
Preview context 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 bowels to the ground, and didn’t strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.
Preview context 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!”
Preview context 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.
Preview context 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 rampart; and all the people who were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.
Preview context 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.’”
Preview context 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 your servant.” He answered, “I’m listening.”
Preview context 2 Samuel 20:20 event
Joab answered, “Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.
Preview context 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 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.”
Preview context 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 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.
Preview context 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,
Preview context 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 and killed them, and had a name among the three.
Preview context 2 Samuel 23:24 mention
Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty: Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
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