But here's the one thing you got to learn about Joab, the guy's cunning, he's deceitful and the
only reason he retreated is because he wants to live to fight another day to take off Abner's head
and he's like I'm not going to be able to get him this time but I am going to get him next time
and this is something that you consistently see with the life of Joab for example with Absalom
and I don't want to get ahead of myself but he you know Absalom takes off from the kingdom he
gets away from David and Joab wants to take out Absalom. Why does he want to take out Absalom?
Because of the fact that Absalom is an adversary to his king and he knows that if Absalom kills
David then he's out of a job so it's not because he cares for David okay we'll get into that just
a bit go to second Samuel chapter three second Samuel chapter number three
so we see that he doesn't really care for the life of his men play before me you know and here's
the verse that I think of when when I read that James chapter four and verse number one says from
whence come wars and fightings among you come they not hence even of your own lust at war
and your members ye lust and have not ye kill and desire to have and cannot obtain
ye fight in war yet ye have not because he asked not the reason Joab was so insistent in going to
war and killing people and doing it unjustly was because he was lusting for power that's what he
wanted it wasn't because of loyalty towards David because when Absalom takes over and his dad flees
does Joab go with him no he stays with Absalom hoping hoping to get some some security hoping
to still retain some position and still have a job he can care less you know who's in power
as long as he's friends with the person that's in power