{"id":61451,"date":"2019-08-19T16:29:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T13:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=61451"},"modified":"2023-03-13T15:36:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T13:36:59","slug":"joab-outside-looking-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/joab-outside-looking-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Joab: Outside Looking In"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[900,835],"acf":{"old_id":"61451","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34891,"related_cahpter":"288","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"He backs the wrong horse, but only because he didn\u2019t know David\u2019s heart","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joab has managed to hang on to power all this time, despite being<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/929.org.il\/lang\/en\/author\/34891\/post\/59746\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cursed by David<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, by having a keen sense of<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/929.org.il\/lang\/en\/author\/34891\/post\/60312\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">when<\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/929.org.il\/lang\/en\/author\/34891\/post\/60359\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/287\/post\/61307\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">obey<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the king blindly and<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/929.org.il\/lang\/en\/author\/34891\/post\/59746\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">when<\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/929.org.il\/lang\/en\/author\/34891\/post\/60859\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/283\/post\/61006\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">second-guess<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the very end of David\u2019s life, as David is frail and cold, Joab, too, falters: he throws his lot in with the wrong son of David.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Did Joab intend any affront to David by following Adonijah? It seems not. Joab sided with David and fought tirelessly against the uprisings of Ish-Boshet and Absalom. We may surmise that Joab, like the rest of the people following Adonijah, simply took their cues from David\u2019s inaction. \u201cHis father had never scolded him: &#8216;Why did you do that?&#8217;\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joab, further, knew that David had wished for<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/929-bible\/rabbi-david-silber-a-lesson-on-ii-samuel-chapter-18\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Absalom to succeed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> him &#8211; a wish David could not entirely let go even as Absalom rebelled. Since Adonijah \u201cwas the one born after Absalom and, like him, was very handsome,\u201d Joab had good reason to surmise that Adonijah would be David\u2019s chosen successor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But David chose Solomon. What prevented Joab, who<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/929.org.il\/lang\/en\/author\/34891\/post\/60599\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">knew the king better than anyone else<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, from anticipating this choice? David chooses Solomon because of his relationship to Bathsheba. While Joab was<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/929.org.il\/lang\/en\/author\/34891\/post\/60312\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">essential<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to the origins of David and Bathsheba\u2019s marriage, the subsequent emotional and spiritual work &#8211; between David and Bathsheba, and between David and God &#8211; was out of Joab\u2019s reach.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joab was an effective general because he saw every situation strategically, coldly,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/929.org.il\/lang\/en\/author\/34891\/post\/60859\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">even when the king could not<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. David chooses his own successor, though, through the combination of strategy and human connection that marks his kingship, both for better and for worse. 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