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Selected Verse: 2 Samuel 20:11 - King James

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2Sa 20:11 King James And one of Joab's men stood by him, and said, He that favoureth Joab, and he that is for David, let him go after Joab.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
He that favoureth Joab, and he that is for David, let him go after Joab--It is a striking proof of Joab's unrivalled influence over the army, that with this villainous murder perpetrated before their eyes they unanimously followed him as their leader in pursuit of Sheba. A soldier conjoined his name with David's, and such a magic spell was in the word "Joab," that all the people "went on"--Amasa's men as well as the rest. The conjunction of these two names is very significant. It shows that the one could not afford to do without the other--neither Joab to rebel against David, nor David to get rid of Joab, though hating him.
 
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5 So Amasa went to assemble the men of Judah: but he tarried longer than the set time which he had appointed him.