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Joab the son of Zeruiah
Who was Joab?
1 Chr 2:13-
Joab was David’s nephew.
In fact, Joab’s other brothers have already been mentioned throughout the narrative of Scripture:
Abishai
We first meet Abishai in as the bravest of two to whom David asks to go down to the camp of king Saul when all had fallen in a deep sleep:
We even read later in the book of that Abishai had obtained being the chiefest of David’s men:
2. Joab
We now encounter the other 2 brothers Joab and Asahel in our passage here in .
Strangely, out of the 3 brothers, Joab is the one which ends up leading and commanding David’s army.
He doesn’t even make the list in or .
Instead his brothers are referenced to him, eg.
“Abishai the brother of Joab”, “Asahel the brother of Joab”.
So how does Joab end up being the commander?
3. Asahel
Our first and last encounter of Asahel occurs in this chapter.
We learn he is very fast and pursues Abner.
Interestingly, Asahel had also obtained to David’s list in :
So Asahel was one of the 30, whereas Abishai was more honourable than the thirty, but not in the top 3.
Abner
Note within our passage that Abner is the one that initiates the charge.
Now that Abner had regained 11 of the tribes allegiance to Ishbosheth he likely thought that he was doing well and sought Joab to a challenge.
Initially it started with 12, but after these 12 perished it ended up erupting into a battle - of which Abner had lost more men.
After killing Joab’s brother Asahel, Abner then finds reinforcements with the “children of Benjamin” and takes position up on the top of a hill, to take the high ground.
This would make it difficult for Joab and his men to attack.
Abner then asks,
Remember, Abner had initiated the fight to begin, but now he proposes they end by appealing to them being their own brethren and how killing doesn’t solve anything - bitterness remains.
Joab responds that if Abner hadn’t started the fight there wouldn’t have been the need to pursue you and your men and everyone would have been going about their normal duties in the morning.
Here then in this passage we have the contrast of two brothers:
Asahel and Joab
Asahel thinking more highly of himself in the pursuit of Abner perishes, whereas Joab conducts himself more wisely and withdraws.
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