Uriah refuses to do so while his companions are in the field of battle and David sends him back to Joab, the commander, with a message instructing him to abandon Uriah on the battlefield, " that he may be struck down, and die.

Absalom is caught by his hair in the branches of an oak and David ’ s general Joab kills him as he hangs there.

He was the son of Abigail (), who was sister to King David () and Zeruiah, the mother of Joab.

Hence, Amasa was a nephew to David, a cousin to Joab, as well as a cousin to Absalom.

He appointed Amasa over the army, in effect replacing Joab, who had been general for his father David.

While being fiercely loyal to David, Joab was also suspicious of any potential rivals for Joab's power or threats to David's kingdom, and had no qualms about taking the lives of any who might stand in his way ( E. G., Abner:, and Absalom: ).

It is conjectured that while David was leading his army against the Ammonites and Syrians, the Edomites invaded the south of Judah, and that David sent Joab or Abishai against them, who drove them back and finally subdued Edom.

Joab ( Hebrew < sub > Modern </ sub > Yo ' av < sub > Tiberian </ sub > Yôʼāḇ ) the son of Zeruiah, was the nephew of King David and the commander of his army, according to the Hebrew Bible.

Joab was the son of Zeruiah, a sister of king David, who made him captain of his army ( 2 Samuel 8: 16 ; 20: 23 ; 1 Chronicles 11: 6 ; 18: 15 ; 27: 34 ).

On the brink of death, David told Solomon to have Joab killed citing Joab's past betrayals and the blood that he was guilty of, and for this Solomon ordered his death by the hand of Benaiah ( 1 Kings 2: 29-34 ), who then replaced him as commander of the army.

If this was the case, the reason Joab killed Abner may have been that he became a threat to his rank of general, since Abner had switched to the side of David and granted him control over the tribe of Benjamin.

* The title refers to the Biblical story of Absalom, a son of David who rebelled against his father ( then King of Kingdom of Israel ) and who was killed by David's general Joab in violation of David's order to deal gently with his son, causing heartbreak to David.

After repeatedly refusing to see his wife Bathsheba, David sent Uriah to his commanding officer Joab with a letter that ordered to put Uriah in the front of the battle and have the soldiers move away from him so that he would be killed.

Despite Uriah's status as one of David's mighty men, British rabbi Jonathan Magonet observes that Uriah refers to Joab, not David, as ' my lord ( or commander )' ( 2 Samuel 11: 11 ).

This prompts Magonet to speculate that David saw some deeper political threat from Joab through his entanglement with Uriah's wife.

According to the version of the story in the masoretic text, David managed to conquer the city by a surprise attack, led by Joab, through the water supply tunnels ( Jerusalem has no natural water supply except for the Gihon spring ).

The classical era rabbis go on to state that King David was prevented from entering the city of Jebus for the same reason, and so he promised the reward of captaincy to anyone who destroyed the bronzes – Joab performing the task and so gaining the prize.

* The number of the Amarna letter ( EA256 ), which, according to David Rohl, was written by Ishbaal and contains mentions of King David, Jesse, and Joab.

6: 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?

These scholars further identify Dadua, Ayab and Yishaya, three figures mentioned by Mutbaal in a later Amarna Letter, as King David, his general Joab, and his father Jesse / Yishai.

He was discovered hanging there still alive by one of David's men, who reported the matter to Joab, the king's commander.

He was closely pursued by Asahel, brother of Joab, who is said to have been " light of foot as a wild roe " ( 2 Samuel 2: 18 ).

This originated a deadly feud between the leaders of the opposite parties, for Joab, as next of kin to Asahel, was by the law and custom of the country the avenger of his blood.

King Joash of Judah was recorded as being assassinated by his own servants, Joab assassinated Absalom, King David's son and King Sennacherib of Assyria was assassinated by his own sons.

It was besieged by Joab in his pursuit of Sheba ( 2 Sam.

Asahel was killed by Abner, for which Joab took revenge by murdering Abner against David's wishes ( 2 Samuel 2: 13-32 ; 3: 27 ).

Benaiah, as ordered by King Solomon, kills Joab in the House of Yahweh.

Prattsville, then part of Saline County, was first settled by Elder Joab Pratt, a Baptist preacher, accompanied by several other families, with the surnames of Mayfield, Pumphrey, McDaniel, and Cobb, all arrived by wagon train from Bibb County, Alabama in 1841.

New Haven was platted as a village by Joab Comstock in 1815.

Each victim of tzaraas mentioned by the Bible is stated to have received the condition due to some transgression of biblical laws, including Joab being cursed for the murder of Abner ( whose blood was shed deceitfully in time of peace ), Gehazi ( for 1. rebelling against Elisha's decision to not take payment for a miracle God had worked 2. working deceitfully to take the payment 3. lying to Elisha, saying he hadn't done the thing ); and Uzziah for presuming to burn incense in the Holy Temple — violating a clear and direct Commandment of G-d ( which prohibited anyone besides the priests to burn incense ).

* Leonard Cohen's poem " Prayer for Sunset " compares the setting sun to the raving Absalom, and asks whether another Joab will arrive tomorrow night to kill Absalom again.

However, when a man reported that Absalom had been found, alive, caught in a tree, Joab and his men killed him ( 2 Samuel 18: 1-33 ).

* This New Jerusalem-David, Absalom, Jonathan, Joab and Chorus

Among his grandchildren were the three sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab and Asahel.

subdued all their allies in a great war, he sent Joab with a

However, according to Josephus, in Antiquities, Book 7, Chapter 1, Joab had forgiven Abner for the death of his brother, Asahel, the reason being that Abner had slain Asahel honorably in combat after he had first warned Asahel and had no other choice but to kill him out of self defense.

The real reason that Joab killed Abner was that he became a threat to his rank of general.

Almost immediately after, however, Joab, who had been sent away, perhaps intentionally returned and slew Abner at the gate of Hebron.

An unnamed wise woman from Abel-beth-maachah convinced Joab not to destroy the city, since the people did not want to shelter Sheba.

She told the people of the city to kill Sheba, and his head was thrown over the wall to Joab.

The name Yoav ( Joab ) may also be attributed to the district of Moav ( Moab in Latin transcription ), eastern bank of the Jordan, from where Ruth the Moabitess came.

Illustration from the Morgan Bible of a story in 2 Samuel 20 of Joab pursuing Sheba ( person ) | Sheba as far as Abel-beth-maachah and Sheba's head being thrown down to him.

Joab played a pivotal role as the commander of David's forces during Absalom's rebellion.

It is interesting to note that Joab fled to the Tent of the Tabernacle and told Benaiah that he will die there.