“He approached her, and the woman asked, ‘Are you Yo’av?’ He answered, ‘I am.’ She said to him, ‘Listen to what your servant has to say.’ He answered, ‘I’m listening.’  Then she said, ‘In the old days they used to say, ‘They will ask advice at Avel’; and that would end the discussion.”-2 Samuel 20:17-18 […]

“Sheva went through all the tribes of Israel, to Avel and Beit-Ma‘akhah, and to all the Berim; they assembled and followed him. Yo’av’s troops came and put him under siege in Avel of Beit-Ma‘akhah — they put up a ramp in the moat against the city wall; and all the people with Yo’av battered the […]

“Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the middle of the road; so that as the troops came up, they all halted there. When the man saw that all the people were standing still, he dragged ‘Amasa off the road into the field and threw a cloak over him.”-2 Samuel 20:12 Once Joab had disposed […]

  “Yo’av said to ‘Amasa, ‘Is it going well with you, my brother?’ Then, with his right hand, Yo’av took ‘Amasa by the beard to kiss him. Amasa took no notice of the sword in Yo’av’s hand, so Yo’av stabbed him in the groin. His insides poured out on the ground, and he died without […]

“On arrival at the big rock in Giv‘on, ‘Amasa came to meet them. Yo’av was wearing his battle clothes, over which he had girded a belt with a sheathed sword; but as he came forward it fell out.”-2 Samuel 20:8 In verse 8, we’re told that Amasa finally arrived at Gibeon (a city in Benjamin […]