Joab

Male

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Family

Parents: Zeruiah
Siblings: Abishai Asahel

Named in 119 verses

1 Samuel 26:6 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
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
2 Samuel 2:14 Abner said to Joab, “Please let the young men arise and compete before us!” Joab said, “Let them arise!”
2 Samuel 2:18 The three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Asahel was as light of foot as a wild gazelle.
2 Samuel 2:22 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?”
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 2:26 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, bef
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 2:30 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 2:32 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 3:22 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, a
2 Samuel 3:23 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
2 Samuel 3:24 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?
2 Samuel 3:26 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.
2 Samuel 3:27 When Abner had 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
2 Samuel 3:29 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 a discharge, or who is a leper, or who lean
2 Samuel 3:30 So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
2 Samuel 3:31 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 f
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 10:9 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 10:13 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
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 an
2 Samuel 11:6 David sent to Joab, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” Joab sent Uriah to David.
2 Samuel 11:7 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 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 the
2 Samuel 11:14 In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
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 11:22 So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for.
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 again
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 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 your
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 14:19 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 th
2 Samuel 14:20 Your servant Joab has done this thing to change the face of the matter. My lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are
2 Samuel 14:21 The king said to Joab, “Behold now, I have granted 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,
2 Samuel 14:23 So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
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 f
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
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
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 Nahas
2 Samuel 18:2 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
2 Samuel 18:5 The king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, “Deal gently for my sake with the young man Absalom.” All the people heard when the king commanded all th
2 Samuel 18:10 A certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, “Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.”
2 Samuel 18:11 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 sas
2 Samuel 18:12 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 h
2 Samuel 18:14 Then Joab said, “I’m not going to wait like this with you.” He took three darts in his hand and thrust them through Absalom’s heart while he was still alive in
2 Samuel 18:15 Ten young men who bore Joab’s armor surrounded and struck Absalom, and killed him.
2 Samuel 18:16 Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held the people back.
2 Samuel 18:20 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 de
2 Samuel 18:21 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 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,
2 Samuel 18:29 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
2 Samuel 19:1 Joab was told, “Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom.”
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
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 20:7 Joab’s men went out after him with the Cherethites, the Pelethites, and all the mighty men; and they went out of Jerusalem to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.
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 w
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 a
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 20:13 When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.
2 Samuel 20:15 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
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 listenin
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. Ju
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 w
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 23:18 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
2 Samuel 23:24 Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty: Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
2 Samuel 23:37 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armor bearers to Joab the son of Zeruiah,
2 Samuel 24:2 The king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, “Now go back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and count
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
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 th
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 J
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 1:19 He has slain cattle and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has called all the sons of the king, Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the army; but he
1 Kings 1:41 Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they had finished eating. When Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, “Why is this noise of the
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 Ama
1 Kings 2:22 King Solomon answered his mother, “Why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also, for he is my elder brother; even for him, a
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, “The king says, ‘Come out!’” He said, “No; but I will die here.” Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, “T
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 fa
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, th
1 Kings 11:15 For when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the army had gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom
1 Kings 11:16 (for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom),
1 Kings 11:21 When Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, “Let me depart, that I may g
1 Chronicles 2:16 and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three.
1 Chronicles 11:6 David had 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 11:8 He built the city all around, from Millo even around; and Joab repaired the rest of the city.
1 Chronicles 11:20 Abishai, the brother of Joab, was chief of the three; for he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.
1 Chronicles 11:26 The mighty men of the armies also include Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
1 Chronicles 11:39 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite (the armor bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah),
1 Chronicles 18:15 Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;
1 Chronicles 19:8 When David heard of it, he sent Joab with all the army of the mighty men.
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 Syrian
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 besieg
1 Chronicles 21:2 David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, “Go, count Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know how many there are.”
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
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 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 h
1 Chronicles 21:6 But he didn’t count Levi and Benjamin among them, for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.
1 Chronicles 26:28 All that Samuel the seer, Saul the son of Kish, Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah had dedicated, whoever had dedicated anything, it was under th
1 Chronicles 27:7 The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
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 o
1 Chronicles 27:34 After Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar. Joab was the captain of the king’s army.