This document is about Joab (David's_General). For other homonyms, please refer to the Joab document. He was the most capable and powerful general during David's time. He was the eldest of the three sons of David's sister Zeruiah, and the brother of Abishai and Asahel.
2 Samuel 2:18Asahel pursued Abner); and in going he didn’t turn to the right hand or to the left from following Abner.
아직 다윗이 국가를 통일하기 전, 유대 지방만 다스리고 있을 때, 여부스 족속과 싸워 이겨 총사령관이 되었다.
1 Chronicles 11:6David) lived in the stronghold; therefore they called it David’s city.
다윗이 사울 왕 집안과 싸울 때에, 다윗에게 귀순한 사울 쪽의 장수 아브넬을 받아들이자, 다윗의 뜻과 상관없이 죽여버렸다. 이는 전에 요압의 동생 아사헬이 이 아브넬에게 죽음을 당했던 원한때문인데, 그렇다 하더라도 왕의 명령을 어기고 임의대로 일을 행한 것으로 다윗이 이 때부터 요압을 견제하기 시작한다.
2 Samuel 3:27Afterward, when David heard it, he said, “I and my kingdom are guiltless before Yahweh forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner.2 Samuel 3:28Let 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 leans on a staff, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks bread.”2 Samuel 3:29So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.2 Samuel 3:30David) 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 followed the bier.2 Samuel 3:31They buried Abner) in Hebron; and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at Abner’s grave; and all the people wept.
이후 압살롬이 암논을 죽이고 도망쳤을 때, 다윗과의 사이를 다시 화목하게 하는데 성공하였다.
2 Samuel 14:1Joab 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 yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.2 Samuel 14:2Go in to the king, and speak like this to him.” So Joab put the words in her mouth.2 Samuel 14:3When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, showed respect, and said, “Help, O king!”2 Samuel 14:4The king said to her, “What ails you?” She answered, “Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.2 Samuel 14:5Your servant had two sons, and they both fought together in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him.2 Samuel 14:6Behold, the whole family has risen against your servant, and they say, ‘Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.’ Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.”2 Samuel 14:7The king said to the woman, “Go to your house, and I will give a command concerning you.”2 Samuel 14:8The woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord, O king, may the iniquity be on me, and on my father’s house; and may the king and his throne be guiltless.”2 Samuel 14:9The king said, “Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he will not bother you any more.”2 Samuel 14:10Then she said, “Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son.” He said, “As Yahweh lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth.”2 Samuel 14:11Then the woman said, “Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king.” He said, “Say on.”2 Samuel 14:12The woman said, “Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished one.2 Samuel 14:13For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.2 Samuel 14:14Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid. Your servant said, ‘I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.’2 Samuel 14:15For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.2 Samuel 14:16Then your servant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.’ ”2 Samuel 14:17Then the king answered the woman, “Please don’t hide anything from me that I ask you.” The woman said, “Let my lord the king now speak.”2 Samuel 14:18The 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 the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab urged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your servant.2 Samuel 14:19Your 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 in the earth.”2 Samuel 14:20The king said to Joab, “Behold now, I have done this thing. Go therefore, and bring the young man Absalom back.”
그러나 그럼에도 불구하고 압살롬이 반역을 일으키자 상대적으로 적은 군사로 압살롬과 싸워 이겼다.
2 Samuel 18:2But the people said, “You shall not go out; for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore now it is better that you are ready to help us out of the city.”2 Samuel 18:3The king said to them, “I will do what seems best to you.” The king stood beside the gate, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.2 Samuel 18:4The king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, “Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom).” All the people heard when the king commanded all the captains concerning Absalom.2 Samuel 18:5So the people went out into the field against Israel; and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.2 Samuel 18:6The people of Israel were struck there before David’s servants, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.2 Samuel 18:7For the battle was there spread over the surface of all the country, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.2 Samuel 18:8Absalom)) happened to meet David’s servants. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.2 Samuel 18:9A certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, “Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.”2 Samuel 18:10Joab 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 sash.”2 Samuel 18:11The 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 hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘Beware that no one touch the young man Absalom.’2 Samuel 18:12Otherwise if I had dealt falsely against his life (and there is no matter hidden from the king), then you yourself would have set yourself against me.”2 Samuel 18:13Then Joab said, “I’m not going to wait like this with you.” He took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the middle of the oak.2 Samuel 18:14Ten young men who bore Joab’s armor surrounded and struck Absalom, and killed him.2 Samuel 18:15Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held the people back.
2 Samuel 19:5in that you love those who hate you, and hate those who love you. For you have declared today that princes and servants are nothing to you. For today I perceive that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died today, then it would have pleased you well.2 Samuel 19:6Now therefore arise, go out, and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don’t go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now.”2 Samuel 19:7Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. They told to all the people, saying, “Behold, the king is sitting in the gate.” All the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his tent.
다윗이 아마사로 군대장관을 삼자, 이에 불만을 품고 있다가 아마사를 죽여버리고 만다.
2 Samuel 20:4So Amasa went to call the men of Judah together; but he stayed longer than the set time which he had appointed him.2 Samuel 20:5David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom did. Take your lord’s servants, and pursue after him, lest he get himself fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.”2 Samuel 20:6Joab’s men went out after him, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men; and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.2 Samuel 20:7When 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 with a sword fastened on his waist in its sheath; and as he went along it fell out.2 Samuel 20:8Joab 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 20:9But 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 again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.2 Samuel 20:10One of Joab’s young men stood by him, and said, “He who favors Joab, and he who is for David, let him follow Joab!”
다윗은 이렇듯 너무나 권력이 강대해져버린 요압에 대해 견제를 하다가, 솔로몬에게 왕위를 물려줄 때에, 요압을 죽이라고 명하고 만다.
1 Kings 2:5Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don’t let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.1 Kings 2:6But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table; for so they came to me when I fled from Absalom your brother.
1 Kings 2:29Benaiah 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, “This is what Joab said, and this is how he answered me.”1 Kings 2:30The 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 father’s house.1 Kings 2:31Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn’t know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.1 Kings 2:32So 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, there will be peace forever from Yahweh.”1 Kings 2:33Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell on him, and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.1 Kings 2:34The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his place over the army; and the king put Zadok the priest in the place of Abiathar.