Joab (1Sa 26:6)
A person of the united monarchy of Israel, first named at 1 Samuel 8:16.
Where in scripture
1 Samuel1 Kings1 ChroniclesPsalmsHe will take your male servants, your female servants, your best young men, and your donkeys, and assign them to his own work.
1 Samuel 8:16
Let it be, when these signs have come to you, that you do what is appropriate for the occasion; for God is with you.
1 Samuel 10:7
The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? He has surely come up to defy Israel. The king will give great riches to the man who kills him, and will give him his daughter, and make his father’s house free in Israel.”
1 Samuel 17:25
Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, greatly delighted in David.
1 Samuel 19:1
They both made a covenant before Yahweh. Then David stayed in the woods, and Jonathan went to his house.
1 Samuel 23:18
Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men on the rocks of the wild goats.
1 Samuel 24:2
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, a public-domain translation.
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In their own words — 2 recorded sayings
“And it came to the ears of Adonijah and all the guests who were with him, when their meal was ended. And Joab, hearing the sound of the horn, said, What is the reason of this noise as if the town was worked up?” — 1 Kings 1:41
“And Benaiah came to the Tent of the Lord and said to him, The king says, Come out. And he said, No; but let death come to me here. And Benaiah went back to the king and gave him word of the answer which Joab had given.” — 1 Kings 2:30
Speaker attribution: Clear Bible MACULA (CC BY 4.0). Wording: Bible in Basic English (public domain).
