Joab

All 84 verses in 2 Samuel, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

2 Samuel

• 2 Samuel 2:13

  So Joab son of Zeruiah, along with the servants of David, marched out and met them by the pool of Gibeon. And the two camps took up positions on opposite sides of the pool.

• 2 Samuel 2:14

  Then Abner said to Joab, “Let us have the young men get up and compete before us.” “Let them get up,” Joab replied.

• 2 Samuel 2:18

  The three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was fleet of foot like a wild gazelle,

• 2 Samuel 2:22

  Once again, Abner warned Asahel, “Stop chasing me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How could I show my face to your brother Joab?”

• 2 Samuel 2:24

  But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. By sunset, they had gone as far as the hill of Ammah opposite Giah on the way to the wilderness of Gibeon.

• 2 Samuel 2:26

  Then Abner called out to Joab: “Must the sword devour forever? Do you not realize that this will only end in bitterness? How long before you tell the troops to stop pursuing their brothers?”

• 2 Samuel 2:27

  “As surely as God lives,” Joab replied, “if you had not spoken up, the troops would have continued pursuing their brothers until morning.”

• 2 Samuel 2:28

  So Joab blew the ram’s horn, and all the troops stopped; they no longer pursued Israel or continued to fight.

• 2 Samuel 2:30

  When Joab returned from pursuing Abner, he gathered all the troops. In addition to Asahel, nineteen of David’s servants were missing,

• 2 Samuel 2:32

  Later, they took Asahel and buried him in his father’s tomb in Bethlehem. Then Joab and his men marched all night and reached Hebron at daybreak.

• 2 Samuel 3:22

  Just then David’s soldiers and Joab returned from a raid, bringing with them a great plunder. But Abner was not with David in Hebron because David had sent him on his way in peace.

• 2 Samuel 3:23

  When Joab and all his troops arrived, he was informed, “Abner son of Ner came to see the king, who sent him on his way in peace.”

• 2 Samuel 3:24

  So Joab went to the king and said, “What have you done? Look, Abner came to you. Why did you dismiss him? Now he is getting away!

• 2 Samuel 3:26

  As soon as Joab had left David, he sent messengers after Abner, who brought him back from the well of Sirah; but David was unaware of it.

• 2 Samuel 3:27

  When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab pulled him aside into the gateway, as if to speak to him privately, and there Joab stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner died on account of the blood of Joab’s brother Asahel.

• 2 Samuel 3:29

  May it whirl over the heads of Joab and the entire house of his father, and may the house of Joab never be without one having a discharge or skin disease, or one who leans on a staff or falls by the sword or lacks food.”

• 2 Samuel 3:30

  (Joab and his brother Abishai murdered Abner because he had killed their brother Asahel in the battle at Gibeon.)

• 2 Samuel 3:31

  Then David ordered Joab and all the people with him, “Tear your clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourn before Abner.” And King David himself walked behind the funeral bier.

• 2 Samuel 8:16

  Joab son of Zeruiah was over the army; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the recorder;

• 2 Samuel 10:7

  On hearing this, David sent Joab and the entire army of mighty men.

• 2 Samuel 10:9

  When Joab saw the battle lines before him and behind him, he selected some of the best men of Israel and arrayed them against the Arameans.

• 2 Samuel 10:13

  So Joab and his troops advanced to fight the Arameans, who fled before him.

• 2 Samuel 10:14

  When the Ammonites saw that the Arameans had fled, they too fled before Abishai, and they entered the city. So Joab returned from fighting against the Ammonites and came to Jerusalem.

• 2 Samuel 11:1

  In the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, David sent out Joab and his servants with the whole army of Israel. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah, but David remained in Jerusalem.

• 2 Samuel 11:6

  At this, David sent orders to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent him to David.

• 2 Samuel 11:7

  When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab and the troops were doing with the war.

• 2 Samuel 11:11

  Uriah answered, “The ark and Israel and Judah are dwelling in tents, and my master Joab and his soldiers are camped in the open field. How can I go to my house to eat and drink and sleep with my wife? As surely as you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do such a thing!”

• 2 Samuel 11:14

  The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.

• 2 Samuel 11:16

  So as Joab besieged the city, he assigned Uriah to a place where he saw the strongest enemy soldiers.

• 2 Samuel 11:17

  And when the men of the city came out and fought against Joab, some of David’s servants fell, and Uriah the Hittite also died.

• 2 Samuel 11:18

  Joab sent to David a full account of the battle

• 2 Samuel 11:22

  So the messenger set out and reported to David all that Joab had sent him to say.

• 2 Samuel 11:25

  Then David told the messenger, “Say this to Joab: ‘Do not let this matter upset you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Strengthen your attack against the city and demolish it.’ Encourage him with these words.”

• 2 Samuel 12:26

  Meanwhile, Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and captured the royal fortress.

• 2 Samuel 12:27

  Then Joab sent messengers to David to say, “I have fought against Rabbah and have captured the water supply of the city.

• 2 Samuel 14:1

  Now Joab son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart longed for Absalom.

• 2 Samuel 14:2

  So Joab sent to Tekoa to bring a wise woman from there. He told her, “Please pretend to be a mourner; put on clothes for mourning and do not anoint yourself with oil. Act like a woman who has mourned for the dead a long time.

• 2 Samuel 14:3

  Then go to the king and speak these words to him.” And Joab put the words in her mouth.

• 2 Samuel 14:19

  So the king asked, “Is the hand of Joab behind all this?” The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything that my lord the king says. Yes, your servant Joab is the one who gave me orders; he told your maidservant exactly what to say.

• 2 Samuel 14:20

  Joab your servant has done this to bring about this change of affairs, but my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God, to know everything that happens in the land.”

• 2 Samuel 14:21

  Then the king said to Joab, “I hereby grant this request. Go, bring back the young man Absalom.”

• 2 Samuel 14:22

  Joab fell facedown in homage and blessed the king. “Today,” said Joab, “your servant knows that he has found favor with you, my lord the king, because the king has granted his request.”

• 2 Samuel 14:23

  So Joab got up, went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

• 2 Samuel 14:29

  Then he sent for Joab to send him to the king, but Joab refused to come to him. So Absalom sent a second time, but Joab still would not come.

• 2 Samuel 14:30

  Then Absalom said to his servants, “Look, Joab’s field is next to mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire!” And Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.

• 2 Samuel 14:31

  Then Joab came to Absalom’s house and demanded, “Why did your servants set my field on fire?”

• 2 Samuel 14:32

  “Look,” said Absalom, “I sent for you and said, ‘Come here. I want to send you to the king to ask: Why have I come back from Geshur? It would be better for me if I were still there.’ So now, let me see the king’s face, and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me.”

• 2 Samuel 14:33

  So Joab went and told the king, and David summoned Absalom, who came to him and bowed facedown before him. Then the king kissed Absalom.

• 2 Samuel 17:25

  Absalom had appointed Amasa over the army in place of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra, the Ishmaelite who had married Abigail, the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah the mother of Joab.

• 2 Samuel 18:2

  He sent out the troops, a third under Joab, a third under Joab’s brother Abishai son of Zeruiah, and a third under Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the troops, “I will surely march out with you as well.”

• 2 Samuel 18:5

  Now the king had commanded Joab, Abishai, and Ittai, “Treat the young man Absalom gently for my sake.” And all the people heard the king’s orders to each of the commanders regarding Absalom.

• 2 Samuel 18:10

  When one of the men saw this, he told Joab, “I just saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree!”

• 2 Samuel 18:11

  “You just saw him!” Joab exclaimed. “Why did you not strike him to the ground right there? I would have given you ten shekels of silver and a warrior’s belt!”

• 2 Samuel 18:12

  The man replied, “Even if a thousand shekels of silver were weighed out into my hands, I would not raise my hand against the son of the king. For we heard the king command you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘Protect the young man Absalom for my sake.’

• 2 Samuel 18:14

  But Joab declared, “I am not going to wait like this with you!” And he took three spears in his hand and thrust them through the heart of Absalom while he was still alive in the oak tree.

• 2 Samuel 18:15

  And ten young men who carried Joab’s armor surrounded Absalom, struck him, and killed him.

• 2 Samuel 18:16

  Then Joab blew the ram’s horn, and the troops broke off their pursuit of Israel because Joab had restrained them.

• 2 Samuel 18:20

  But Joab replied, “You are not the man to take good news today. You may do it another day, but you must not do so today, because the king’s son is dead.”

• 2 Samuel 18:21

  So Joab said to a Cushite, “Go, tell the king what you have seen.” The Cushite bowed to Joab and took off running.

• 2 Samuel 18:22

  Ahimaaz son of Zadok, however, persisted and said to Joab, “Regardless of whatever may happen, please let me also run behind the Cushite!” “My son,” Joab replied, “why do you want to run, since you will not receive a reward?”

• 2 Samuel 18:29

  The king asked, “Is the young man Absalom all right?” And Ahimaaz replied, “When Joab sent the king’s servant and your servant, I saw a great tumult, but I do not know what it was.”

• 2 Samuel 19:1

  Then it was reported to Joab, “The king is weeping and mourning over Absalom.”

• 2 Samuel 19:5

  Then Joab went into the house and said to the king, “Today you have disgraced all your servants who have saved your life and the lives of your sons and daughters, of your wives, and of your concubines.

• 2 Samuel 19:13

  And say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my flesh and blood? May God punish me, and ever so severely, if from this time you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”

• 2 Samuel 20:7

  So Joab’s men, along with the Cherethites, the Pelethites, and all the mighty men, marched out of Jerusalem in pursuit of Sheba son of Bichri.

• 2 Samuel 20:8

  And while they were at the great stone in Gibeon, Amasa joined them. Now Joab was dressed in military attire, with a dagger strapped to his belt. And as he stepped forward, he slipped the dagger from its sheath.

• 2 Samuel 20:9

  “Are you well, my brother?” Joab asked Amasa. And with his right hand Joab grabbed Amasa by the beard to kiss him.

• 2 Samuel 20:10

  Amasa was not on guard against the dagger in Joab’s hand, and Joab stabbed him in the stomach and spilled out his intestines on the ground. And Joab did not need to strike him again, for Amasa was dead. Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bichri.

• 2 Samuel 20:11

  One of Joab’s young men stood near Amasa and said, “Whoever favors Joab, and whoever is for David, let him follow Joab!”

• 2 Samuel 20:13

  As soon as Amasa’s body was removed from the road, all the men went on with Joab to pursue Sheba son of Bichri.

• 2 Samuel 20:15

  And Joab’s troops came and besieged Sheba in Abel-beth-maacah and built a siege ramp against the outer rampart of the city. As all the troops with Joab were battering the wall to topple it,

• 2 Samuel 20:16

  a wise woman called out from the city, “Listen! Listen! Please tell Joab to come here so that I may speak with him.”

• 2 Samuel 20:17

  When he had come near to her, the woman asked, “Are you Joab?” “I am,” he replied. “Listen to the words of your servant,” she said. “I am listening,” he answered.

• 2 Samuel 20:20

  “Far be it!” Joab declared. “Far be it from me to swallow up or destroy!

• 2 Samuel 20:21

  That is not the case. But a man named Sheba son of Bichri, from the hill country of Ephraim, has lifted up his hand against the king, against David. Deliver him alone, and I will depart from the city.” “Look,” the woman replied, “his head will be thrown to you over the wall.”

• 2 Samuel 20:22

  Then the woman went to all the people with her wise counsel, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri and threw it to Joab. So he blew the ram’s horn and his men dispersed from the city, each to his own home. And Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.

• 2 Samuel 20:23

  Now Joab was over the whole army of Israel; Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and Pelethites;

• 2 Samuel 23:18

  Now Abishai, the brother of Joab and son of Zeruiah, was chief of the Three, and he lifted his spear against three hundred men, killed them, and won a name along with the Three.

• 2 Samuel 23:24

  Now these were members of the Thirty: Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

• 2 Samuel 23:37

  Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, the armor-bearer of Joab son of Zeruiah,

• 2 Samuel 24:2

  So the king said to Joab the commander of his army, who was with him, “Go now throughout the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba and register the troops, so that I may know their number.”

• 2 Samuel 24:3

  But Joab replied to the king, “May the LORD your God multiply the troops a hundred times over, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king want to do such a thing?”

• 2 Samuel 24:4

  Nevertheless, the king’s word prevailed against Joab and against the commanders of the army. So Joab and the commanders of the army departed from the presence of the king to count the troops of Israel.

• 2 Samuel 24:9

  And Joab reported to the king the total number of the troops. In Israel there were 800,000 men of valor who drew the sword, and in Judah there were 500,000.

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.