Now Joab the son of Zeruiah knew that the king’s heart went out to Absalom.
1 Chronicles 2:16 - English Standard Version 2016 And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 whose sisters were Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three. American Standard Version (1901) and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three. Common English Bible Their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. Zeruiah’s family: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel—three in all. Catholic Public Domain Version Their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And their sisters were Sarvia, and Abigail. The sons of Sarvia: Abisai, Joab, and Asael, three. |
Now Joab the son of Zeruiah knew that the king’s heart went out to Absalom.
Now Absalom had set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra the Ishmaelite, who had married Abigal the daughter of Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.
But David said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be as an adversary to me? Shall anyone be put to death in Israel this day? For do I not know that I am this day king over Israel?”
And Joab the son of Zeruiah and the servants of David went out and met them at the pool of Gibeon. And they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.
And I was gentle today, though anointed king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah, are more severe than I. The Lord repay the evildoer according to his wickedness!”
Now Abishai, the brother of Joab, was chief of the thirty. And he wielded his spear against 300 men and killed them and won a name beside the three.
Abigail bore Amasa, and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
Then David said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Joab’s brother Abishai the son of Zeruiah, “Who will go down with me into the camp to Saul?” And Abishai said, “I will go down with you.”