2 Samuel 20:9

World English Bible (2000)

Joab said to Amasa, "Is it well with you, my brother?" Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.

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  • Ps 55:21 : 21 His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
  • Prov 26:24-26 : 24 A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors evil in his heart. 25 When his speech is charming, don't believe him; for there are seven abominations in his heart. 26 His malice may be concealed by deception, but his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.
  • Mic 7:2 : 2 The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.
  • Matt 26:48-49 : 48 Now he who betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, "Whoever I kiss, he is the one. Seize him." 49 Immediately he came to Jesus, and said, "Hail, Rabbi!" and kissed him.
  • Luke 22:47-48 : 47 While he was still speaking, behold, a multitude, and he who was called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He came near to Jesus to kiss him. 48 But Jesus said to him, "Judas, do you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?"

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  • 2 Sam 20:10-13
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    10 But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand. So he struck him with it in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn't strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.

    11 There stood by him one of Joab's young men, and said, "He who favors Joab, and he who is for David, let him follow Joab!"

    12 Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the midst of the highway. When the man saw that all the people stood still, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a garment over him, when he saw that everyone who came by him stood still.

    13 When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

  • 2 Sam 20:8
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    8 When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Joab was clothed in his apparel of war that he had put on, and on it was a sash with a sword fastened on his waist in its sheath; and as he went forth it fell out.

  • 2 Sam 19:12-13
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    12 You are my brothers, you are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?'

    13 Say to Amasa, 'Aren't you my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren't captain of the army before me continually in the room of Joab.'"

  • 2 Sam 14:32-33
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    32 Absalom answered Joab, "Behold, I sent to you, saying, 'Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, "Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me."'"

    33 So Joab came to the king, and told him; and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king: and the king kissed Absalom.

  • 2 Sam 15:5
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    5 It was so, that when any man came near to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took hold of him, and kissed him.

  • 1 Kgs 2:5-6
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    5 "Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was about his waist, and in his shoes that were on his feet.

    6 Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don't let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.

  • 2 Sam 20:4-5
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    4 Then the king said to Amasa, "Call me the men of Judah together within three days, and be here present."

    5 So Amasa went to call [the men of] Judah together; but he stayed longer than the set time which he had appointed him.

  • 2 Sam 17:24-25
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    24 Then David came to Mahanaim. Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

    25 Absalom set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man, whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab's mother.

  • 1 Kgs 2:31-32
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    31 The king said to him, "Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him; that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father's house.

    32 Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn't know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.

  • 2 Sam 3:30
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    30 So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

  • 2 Sam 18:14-15
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    14 Then Joab said, "I'm not going to wait like this with you." He took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.

    15 Ten young men who bore Joab's armor surrounded and struck Absalom, and killed him.

  • 2 Sam 18:11
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    11 Joab said to the man who told him, "Behold, you saw it, and why didn't you strike him there to the ground? I would have given you ten pieces of silver, and a sash."

  • 2 Sam 3:26-27
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    26 When Joab had come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the well of Sirah; but David didn't know it.

    27 When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

  • 2 Sam 20:17
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    17 He came near to her; and the woman said, "Are you Joab?" He answered, "I am." Then she said to him, "Hear the words of your handmaid." He answered, "I do hear."

  • 2 Sam 2:21-22
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    21 Abner said to him, "Turn aside to your right hand or to your left, and grab one of the young men, and take his armor." But Asahel would not turn aside from following him.

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  • 2 Sam 10:4-5
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    4 So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.

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  • 2 Sam 20:20
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    20 Joab answered, "Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.

  • 2 Sam 14:23
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    23 So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Sam 3:24
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    24 Then Joab came to the king, and said, "What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you. Why is it that you have sent him away, and he is quite gone?

  • 1 Sam 17:35
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    35 I went out after him, and struck him, and rescued it out of his mouth. When he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and struck him, and killed him.

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  • 1 Chr 19:5
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    5 Then there went certain persons, and told David how the men were served. He sent to meet them; for the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, "Stay at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return."

  • 1 Chr 12:17
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    17 David went out to meet them, and answered them, "If you have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart shall be knit to you; but if you have come to betray me to my adversaries, since there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it."

  • 2 Sam 19:5
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    5 Joab came into the house to the king, and said, "You have shamed this day the faces of all your servants, who this day have saved your life, and the lives of your sons and of your daughters, and the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines;

  • 1 Chr 19:15
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    21 The king said to Joab, "Behold now, I have done this thing. Go therefore, bring the young man Absalom back."

  • 1 Chr 19:11
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  • 1 Kgs 2:8
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  • 1 Sam 17:57
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    57 As David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.

  • 2 Sam 16:9
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    9 Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, "Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head."

  • 2 Sam 19:1
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    1 It was told Joab, "Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom."