This is probably some rebellion against God and not to be mirrored by you my children, but in the Bible, I just do not like the deals that some people got.
Jonathan, son of King Saul, gave all for David, who God chose as King, and in the end he got murdered by Philistines for it, as God wiped out Saul's line and installed David's.
Jonathan was a wonderful person and it was just not fair what in he was born and for that he was a problem to end in death.
Pontius Pilate, I like the guy though all judge him. He had a bad job, with a bunch of bad Jews harping on things, and ended up killing an innocent in Jesus, just to keep Rome at peace.
What else could he have done as he was damned if he did and damned if he didn't. That was not fair as he was a Roman who was trying his best.
Joab, I honestly like this man. His story is one though where he always was blamed for things, things which came about because King David was God's choice. If it were not for Joab cleaning up all the messes, God and David would have had an impossible time establishing Christ's Throne in David.
Joab was David's nephew. He is a warrior, one of the best and bravest. In his career, he kills Abner and Amasa who are Saul's generals fighting against God and trying to murder David.
One of them, Joab kills, because the guy in battle kills Joab's little brother who would not give up the fight.
Let's be real here, in you have a lion and a cub. The cub won't quit and the lion could have broke his leg as he is a warrior, but no the lion uses his spear to gut him. For that Joab kills the guy.
The other general, Joab kills, because he presumes when David accepts overtures, that is it some kind of spying expedition and a trap. Sure Joab probably was protecing his position as chief of the army, but how stupid would it have been of David to put that general in charge of the army, a general only there, because he was sexing some woman that Saul's son, the current king was involved with.
Not a great foundation to build your new kingdom on.
Joab was right in killing these two enemies. It saved God and David huge problems, as they would have most likely tried to be king themselves in killing David.
In that, Joab was the one who got to be leader of the army because he stormed Jerusalem's strongholds. He was the bravest and best........and he was always loyal to David.
When David was taking Uriah's wife, Bathsheba, it was David who had Joab put Uriah into battle to be murdered.
Joab did it, and then warned David when he complained, that it was his plan to begin with.
Yes Joab could do the dirty work and he did it often for David.
After Absalom, killed Amnon, the heir apparent for raping his sister Tamar, it was Joab who for the good of the kingdom brought Absalom back, and yes he did it as no doubt he did not like Bathsheba nor Solomon gaining the throne, a throne he secured for them by getting Uriah killed in battle.
Absalom then went out and set Joab's field on fire, because Joab had not done enough for him in brining him back from exile. That is a great mindset of ingratitude.
Four years later Absalom revolted and almost murdered everyone in David's household. Joab could have gone over to the enemy, but he stayed with David.
Joab would lead the army against Absalom's combined forces and route it, as David proclaimed nothing should happen to his son.
To that Joab when he found Absalom killed him, once again saving David a huge problem that would continue to be a murder plot against him.
Joab could have at any time struck and moved to be king, but he never did. He bowed to David and summoned him in the worst and weakest of David's times, to summoning him to take a city that Joab had taken, so David would get credit and the people would not be tempted to follow Joab.
At the end, Joab would side with David's third son, as David was dying, as that son was heir apparent over Solomon.
David never did move on Joab during his life, but made certain that Solomon did, and in that Solomon stripped Joab of his generalship and had him slain while in the Temple sanctuary.
That was not enough, but Solomon invoked a curse on Joab and his family that all this blood would be on them.
No apologies from me on this, but with the evidence above, Joab who was a loyal servant all his life, got like Jonathan and Pontius Pilate the worst of deals. None of them deserved what they got and in failed, shortsighted, unwise judgment, God could have done better for these three men.
I base my judgments on the reality, that I would have conducted myself as these men did, and if not me, I would have expected my subordinates to do exactly what they did.
Jonathan was beyond loyal to his father and covenant pledge. Pilate kept the Roman peace as that was his job above all others. Joab was to keep Israel secure for David from foes foreign and domestic, and Joab did that perfectly, even when the worst enemy against Israel was King David despising God in adultery and murder.
So no one stands up in the Bible for these men. No one stands up for Simeon and Levi for slaughtering the rapists and robbers of Shechem, but I approve of them for killing everyone as they raped their sister Dinah.
See I'm a bright girl in God's Spirit so He tells me Dinah could not produce a line, as it was those 12 tribes in God's number thing, so she probably had a good romp, even after she was not supposed to be wandering around with the country girls which got her raped, by someone who wanted to marry her.
It just causes problems in competing lines....but then Abraham was out sexing other wives of his causing problems and he is God's friend.
Yes I can know the reasons for things, but it is the unfairness of things that bothers me. Joab is exactly the relative and general I would choose. In fact, if I had a Solomon, I would want Joab alive to spank his smart ass and beat his ass when he got older to keep him from sin.
That is just me though, as God is God and He always knows more than I do. I would though that Joab would have God set things a bit better for him in front of the people.
nuff said
The called his name Joab
The lion of the tribe
He fought Israel's enemies
Upon every side
Mourn for might Joab
The roar of the people's heart
The pride cries for the fallen
In the warrior which did depart
agtG 273Y
