Joab Advises Discretion

Now with David mourning his sons death who happens to also be his enemy, his men become discouraged, but Joab gives him some great advice to go and encourage his men which he does and all goes well. But the Mephebosheth, Saul's grandson, goes to meet King David and is extremely humble to David which gets David on his good side.

Barzilli is an old friend of Davids and David wants him to join him on is crossing of the Jordan, but both of them realize that he is too old so David choose Kimhan to cross over with himself. With all this he runs into Sheba who then starts to rebel against David so he send Amasa to summon Judah to kill Sheba. Well, unfortunately , Amasa took longer then David had given him so Joab ends up killing him.

As they move on in pursuit of Sheba, they find him in a city where there is a very wise woman. This woman then tells them that if they will stop trying to break down the walls, the people will deliver Sheba's head and fling it over the wall to them. I think one of the things to learn here is the fact that we can not get caught up in our jealousy or pride.