1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 Kings 2:5 what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me. Joab is to be killed to clear David’s house of “the guilt for the blood” that Joab “shed without cause” (v. 1 Kings 2:31). It is interesting, however, that David himself had apparently not been concerned enough about this previously to take action against someone who had been so useful to him (e.g., 2 Samuel 11:15; 2 Samuel 14:1).

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