Instances Of Evil For Good : To Joab

Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother To Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.

And Abner said To Joab, Let the young men now arise, and play before us. And Joab said, Let them arise.

And Abner said again to Asahel, Turn thee aside from following me: wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then should I hold up my face To Joab thy brother?

Then Abner called To Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?

• Abner
• Burial
• Mourning

And David said To Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.

And David sent To Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.

And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter To Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.

Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again To Joab, But howsoever, let me, I pray thee, also run after Cushi. And Joab said, Wherefore wilt thou run, my son, seeing that thou hast no tidings ready?

• Armies
• Trumpet

Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast it out To Joab. And he blew a trumpet, and they retired from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.

Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armourbearer To Joab the son of Zeruiah,

For the king said To Joab the captain of the host, which was with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people.

• Altar

Then tidings came To Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.

And David said To Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.

• Integrity

But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king's word was abominable To Joab.