See also:

• JOAB (Heb. " Yah [well] is a father ")

JOAB (Heb. " Yah [well] is a See also:

• FATHER

father ")  , in the See also:

• BIBLE
• BIBLE, ENGLISH

Bible, the son of Zeruiah, See also:

• DAVID
• DAVID (a Hebrew name meaning probably beloved 1)
• DAVID, FELICIEN (1810—1876)
• DAVID, GERARD [GHEERAERT DAVIT], (?=1523)
• DAVID, PIERRE JEAN (1789–1856)
• DAVID, ST (Dewi, Sant)

David's See also:

• SISTER

sister (1 Chron. ii . 16) . His See also:

• BROTHERS, RICHARD (1757-1824)

brothers were Asahel and Abishai . All three were renowned warriors and played a prominent See also:

• PART

part in David's See also:

• HISTORY

history . Abishai on one occasion saved the See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king's See also:

• LIFE

life from a See also:

• PHILISTINE

Philistine See also:

• GIANT (O.E. geant, through Fr. giant, O.Fr. gaiant, jaiant, jeant, med. pop. Lat. gagante—cf. Ital. gigante—by assimilation from gigantem, ace. of Lat. gigas, Gr. yiyas)

giant (2 Sam. xxi . 17), and See also:

• JOAB (Heb. " Yah [well] is a father ")

Joab as See also:

• WARRIOR

warrior and statesman was directly respon- XV . 14sible for much of David's success . Joab won his spurs, according to one See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account, by capturing See also:

• JERUSALEM (Heb. ^S0-r, Yerushalaim, pronounced as a dual)
• JERUSALEM, SYNOD OF (1672)

Jerusalem (1 Chron. xi . 4–9); with Abishai and Ittai of See also:

• GATH

Gath he led a small See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army against the Israelites who had rebelled under See also:

• ABSALOM (Hebrew for " father of [or is] peace ")

Absalom (2 Sam. xviii . 2); and he superintended the See also:

• CAMPAIGN

campaign against See also:

• AMMON
• AMMON, CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON (1766—185o)

Ammon and See also:

• EDOM

Edom (2 Sam. xi . 1, xii . 26; I See also:

• KINGS, FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF

Kings xi .

15) . He showed his sturdy See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character by urging the king after the See also:

• DEATH

death of Absalom to See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place his See also:

• DUTY (from " due," that which is owing, O. Fr. deu, dil, past participle of devoir; Lat. debere, debitum; cf. " debt ")

duty to his See also:

• PEOPLE

people before his grief for the loss of his favourite son (2 Sam. xix . 1–8), and by protesting against David's proposal to number the people, an innovation which may have been regarded as an infringement of their liberties (2 Sam. See also:

• XXIV

xxiv.; I Chron. xxi . 6) . The hostility of the " sons of Zeruiah " towards the tribe of See also:

• BENJAMIN
• BENJAMIN, JUDAHPHILIP (1811-1884)

Benjamin is characteristically contrasted with David's own generosity towards See also:

• SAUL (Heb. shd'ul, " asked ")

Saul's fallen See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house . Abishai proposed to kill Saul when David surprised him asleep (t Sam. See also:

• XXVI

xxvi . 8), and was anxious to slay Shimei when he cursed the icing (2 Sam. xvi . 9) . But David was resigned to the will of Yahweh and refused to entertain the suggestions . After Asahel met his death at the hands of See also:

• ABNER (Hebrew for "father of [or is a] light ")

Abner, Joab expostulated with David for not taking revenge upon the guilty one, and indeed the king might be considered See also:

• BOUND, or BOUNDARY (from O. Fr. bonde, Med. Lat. bodena or butina, a frontier line)

bound in See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour to take up his See also:

• NEPHEW

nephew's cause . But when Joab himself killed Abner, David's imprecation against him and his See also:

• BROTHER

brother Abishai showed that he dissociated himself from the See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act of vengeance, although it brought him nearer to the See also:

• THRONE

throne of all See also:

• ISRAEL (Hebrew for " God strives " or " rules "; see Gen. xxxii. 28; and the allusion in Hosea xii. 4)

Israel (2 Sam. iii.) . Fear of a possible See also:

• RIVAL

rival may have influenced Joab, and this at all events led him to slay Amasa of See also:

• JUDAH

Judah (2 Sam. xx .

4–13) . The two deeds are similar, and the impression See also:

• LEFT

left by them is expressed in David's last charges to See also:

• SOLOMON, ODES OF
• SOLOMON, PSALMS OF

Solomon (1 Kings ii.) . But here Joab had taken the See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side of See also:

• ADONIJAH (Heb. Adoniyyah or Adoniyyahu, " Yah is Lord ")

Adonijah against Solomon, and was put to death by Benaiah at Solomon's command, and it is possible that the charges are the See also:

• FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit of a later tradition to remove all possible blame from Solomon (q.v.) . It is singular that Joab is not blamed for killing Absalom, but it would indeed be See also:

• STRANGE, SIR ROBERT (1721-1792)

strange if the See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man who helped to reconcile See also:

• FATHER

father and son (2 Sam. xiv.) should have perpetrated so cruel an act in See also:

• DIRECT

direct opposition to the king's wishes (xviii . 5, 10-16) . A certain animus against Joab's See also:

• FAMILY

family thus seems to underlie some of the popular narratives of the life of David (q.v.) . (S . A .