Fondare 153 Risultati per: Abner And Joab
but Joab told him, Better some other day than this for bearing the message; I would not have thee tell the news to-day; here is a king’s son dead. (2 Samuel 18, 20)
Afterwards Joab bade Chusi go and tell the king what he had seen;✻ so Chusi did reverence to him, and ran. (2 Samuel 18, 21)
And thereupon Sadoc’s son Achimaas asked whether he might not run after Chusi. No need for that, my son, Joab answered; it is not good news thou wilt carry. (2 Samuel 18, 22)
But may I run? asked he. Run if thou wilt, said Joab. And Achimaas took a shorter way, and passed Chusi by. (2 Samuel 18, 23)
Is all well, the king asked, with my son Absalom? And Achimaas answered, There was a great stir round about Joab when he sent me, thy servant, on my errand; I can tell thee no more. (2 Samuel 18, 29)
Word came back to Joab that the king was in tears, mourning over his son; (2 Samuel 19, 1)
At last Joab made his way into the royal lodging, and said to the king, Here is a fine day’s work, to make all thy followers go about hanging their heads! The men who have saved thee and thy sons and daughters, thy wives and concubines, from peril of death! (2 Samuel 19, 5)
He bade them, too, give this message to Amasa, Art thou not my own flesh and blood? May the Lord punish me as I deserve, and more than I deserve, if I do not make thee, instead of Joab, commander of my army henceforward! (2 Samuel 19, 13)
So in pursuit of Seba they went, under Abisai’s command, Joab’s men, and the Cerethites and Phelethites, and all the picked warriors in Jerusalem; (2 Samuel 20, 7)
and when they reached the great stone of Gabaon, they fell in with Amasa. Joab was there, clad in a tight-fitting cloak of the same length as his coat, and girt with a dagger whose sheath only reached to his loins, such that he could draw it easily and strike.✻ (2 Samuel 20, 8)
Greetings to thee, brother, said Joab, and with that he clapped his right hand under Amasa’s chin, as if he would kiss him; (2 Samuel 20, 9)
then, with the dagger that had gone unmarked, he struck him in the side, and spilt his entrails on the ground, so that he died without a second blow. After this, Joab and his brother Abisai continued their pursuit of Seba, son of Bochri. (2 Samuel 20, 10)
