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As Joab approached, the woman asked, "Are you Joab?" He answered, "I am." (2 Samuel 20, 17)
Joab answered, "By no means do I want to destroy it! (2 Samuel 20, 20)
But a man from the hill country of Ephraim, named Sheba, son of Bichri, has rebelled against King David. Only surrender him and I will withdraw from the city." So the woman said to Joab, "We shall throw his head over the wall to you." (2 Samuel 20, 21)
The woman then gathered the inhabitants and spoke to them so persuasively that they beheaded Sheba, son of Bichri, and threw his head out to Joab who then sounded the trumpet for the people to depart from the city. Then everyone went home and Joab himself returned to the king in Jerusalem. (2 Samuel 20, 22)
Joab was in command of all the army of Israel while Benaiah, son of Jehoiada, was in command of the Cherethites and the Pelethites. (2 Samuel 20, 23)
Now Abishai, brother of Joab, son of Zeruiah, was chief of the Thirty. He wielded his spear against three hundred men and slew them, winning a name beside the Thirty. (2 Samuel 23, 18)
Asahel, brother of Joab, was one of the Thirty; Elhanan, son of Dodo of Bethlehem; (2 Samuel 23, 24)
Zelek the Ammonite; Naharai of Beeroth, the armor-bearer of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, (2 Samuel 23, 37)
The king said to Joab and the commanders of the army who were with him, "Go through all the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba and count the people that I may know how many they are." (2 Samuel 24, 2)
Joab told the king, "May Yahweh your God multiply the people a hundred times and may my lord the king see this blessing. But why does my lord the king want to take a census?" (2 Samuel 24, 3)
But the king's word prevailed so that Joab and the commanders of the army went out from the king's presence in order to count the people of Israel. (2 Samuel 24, 4)
Joab gave the total count of the people to the king: eight hundred thousand sword-wielding warriors in Israel and five hundred thousand men in Judah. (2 Samuel 24, 9)