H3097G–יוֹאָב–yo.av

And he built the city round about, from Millo even round about; and Joab repaired the rest of the city.

וְיוֹאָ֕ב (יוֹאָ֕ב) yo.'Av “Joab”

And Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three; for he lifted up his spear against three hundred and slew them, and had a name among the three.

יוֹאָ֗ב yo.'Av “Joab”

Also the mighty men of valour: Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem;

יוֹאָ֔ב yo.'Av “Joab”

Zelek the Ammonite, Nahrai the Berothite, the armour-bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah;

יוֹאָ֥ב yo.'Av “Joab”

And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder.

וְיוֹאָ֥ב (יוֹאָ֥ב) yo.'Av “Joab”

And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.

יוֹאָ֔ב yo.'Av “Joab”

Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Arameans.

יוֹאָ֗ב yo.'Av “Joab”

So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh unto the battle to meet the Arameans; and they fled before him.

יוֹאָ֜ב yo.'Av “Joab”

And when the children of Ammon saw that the Arameans were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.

יוֹאָ֖ב yo.'Av “Joab”

And it came to pass, at the time of the return of the year, at the time when kings go out to battle, that Joab led forth the power of the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem.

יוֹאָב֩ yo.'Av “Joab”יוֹאָ֛ב yo.'Av “Joab”

And David said to Joab and to the princes of the people: 'Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know the sum of them.'

יוֹאָב֙ yo.'Av “Joab”

And Joab said: 'The LORD make His people a hundred times so many more as they are; but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of guilt unto Israel?'

יוֹאָ֗ב yo.'Av “Joab”

Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.

יוֹאָ֑ב yo.'Av “Joab”יוֹאָ֗ב yo.'Av “Joab”

And Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and a hundred thousand men that drew sword; and Judah was four hundred three-score and ten thousand men that drew sword.

יוֹאָ֛ב yo.'Av “Joab”

But Levi and Benjamin he did not number among them; for the king's word was abominable to Joab.

יוֹאָֽב׃ yo.'Av “Joab”

And all that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had dedicated; whosoever had dedicated any thing, it was under the hand of Shelomith, and of his brethren.

וְיוֹאָ֖ב (יוֹאָ֖ב) yo.'Av “Joab”

The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him; and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

יוֹאָ֔ב yo.'Av “Joab”

Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but finished not; and there came wrath for this upon Israel; neither was the number put into the account in the chronicles of king David.

יוֹאָ֨ב yo.'Av “Joab”

and after Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar; and the captain of the king's host was Joab.

יוֹאָֽב׃ yo.'Av “Joab”

¹For the Leader; upon Shushan Eduth; Michtam of David, to teach; ²when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the Valley of Salt twelve thousand.

יוֹאָ֗ב yo.'Av “Joab”