Joab scolds David for disrespecting his
military men
And Joab
came into the house to the king, and said,
Thou hast
shamed this day the faces of all thy servants,which this day have saved thy life,
and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters,
and the lives of thy wives,
In that
thou lovest thine enemies,
and hatest
thy friends.
For thou
hast declared this day,
that thou
regardest neither princes nor servants:
for this
day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived,
and all we
had died this day,
then it had
pleased thee well.
Now
therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants:
for I swear
by the LORD, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry one with thee this
night:
and that
will be worse unto thee than all the evil that befell thee from thy youth until
now.
Then the
king arose, and sat in the gate.
And they
told unto all the people, saying,
Behold, the
king doth sit in the gate. And all the people came before the
king:
2 Samuel
19:5-8
