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Joab

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Jo·ab  (jb)
In the Bible, the nephew and adviser of David whose military victories greatly strengthened David's monarchy. His violent acts of revenge to protect David led to his execution under Solomon.


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Four chapters are given to analyses of 2 Samuel 11: the first looks at the ambiguity in (and textual variants of) its first verse, the second deals with the 4QSam identification in 11:3 of Uriah as "the armor-bearer of Joab," the third presents Joab as a reader-response critic changing David's orders about how to kill Uriah in order to make them more practical, and the fourth looks at the different presentations of Joab's messenger to David in MT and LXX.
Moreover you know what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, how he dealt with the two commanders of the armies of Israel, Abner the son of Ner and Amasa the son of Jether, whom he murdered, retaliating in time of peace for blood shed in war.
Joab J, Ruaunyi C, Renoir J, Buchou T, Catulli M, Binurt N, Mester J, Baulieu E-E.
 
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