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Originally Posted by Slippery  thanks a lot Bruce, you are insightful as usual.
As for Joab the thing that rubbed me the wrong way about him was when he killed Absalom. He did this not in the heat of battle but when Absalom was totally helpless hanging in the tree. |
That was Joab's
modus operendi. Abner, Amasa, Absalom.
The irony here is that Beneniah dealt with Joab exactly as Joab would have dealt with another - without pity, following order.
"Live by the sword, die by the sword."