So obviously you see why he would be an asset to David David's looking at this guy and saying well this guy's
You know cutthroat and he's taking care of business. So I'm gonna keep continuing to use them to further my kingdom. Okay
Go to second Samuel chapter 11
And I honestly I can't think of any other good thing that he's done
You know that you know the counting of the people just trying to discourage David from counting the people
That's pretty much it, you know, and you know
Like I said, his life is clouded in a lot of mischief and and dishonesty
Another thing that he did was that he did David's dirty work
Okay
David we know was a picture of Jesus Christ, but David was still David
Okay, he was he was a foreshadowing of Jesus Christ his good qualities right foreshadowed Jesus Christ his bad qualities
Just represented who he really was as a sinner
Okay, because he committed adultery he murdered a man
He did a lot of bad stuff because he was just a regular human being who made mistakes. He was not perfect
Now look at second Samuel 11 verse 1
It says and it came to pass after the year was expired at the time when kings go forth to battle
That David sent Joab and his servants with them in all Israel and they destroyed the children of Ammon and besieged Rabah
But David Terry's still at Jerusalem now we obviously know this story
Because David gets out of the battle. He stays behind in Jerusalem. He ends up getting involved in sin
You know, he sees Bathsheba bathing
He he sees he inquires he takes and he ends up getting Bathsheba pregnant commits adultery with Bathsheba and
She conceives a child. She ends up having a child because he's trying to hide his sin
He's like, okay
Well, the next best thing is to take Uriah and kill him which is Uriah is Bathsheba's husband
I mean, this is very evil. It's very wicked, right?
But you know, he can't do it alone
He's trying to he's conspiring to kill Uriah which is one of David's mighty men, I mean it's his own guys, right
He's conspiring to kill him
But obviously he can't just ask anybody to help him with that because a lot of people in David's army are righteous people
So he's got to go to the bottom of the barrel
Okay, and you know who he scoops up he scoops up Joab
Look at verse 14
And it came to pass in the morning that David wrote a letter to Joab
And sent it by the hand of Uriah. That's so wicked. It's like he's carrying his own death certificate
to die
And he wrote in the letter saying set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest part hottest battle and retire ye from him
That he may be smitten and die
now
Joab
We don't see his reaction. He's not like what David?
This is Uriah
What are you doing?
You know why he's not doing that because this is just another day in the office for Joab
He's like sounds good to me
You know, that's how I roll
Let's get him out of the picture if that's what you want king David because that that's what job is characterized by
This type of deception this type of mischief. That's what he's known for right
And the unfortunate thing is uncle David knows that
So uncle David is just like
Joab's not gonna say anything about this
He's gonna go along with it and he's not gonna he's not gonna divulge the letter to anybody else
I know I can trust in Joab to do my dirty work
Okay
Verse 16 says and it came to pass when Joab observed the city
That he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew the valiant men were
The men of the city went out and fought with Joab and there fell some of the people the servants of David
And Uriah the Hittite died also
and you know how the rest of the story goes and so, you know, they bring back the the
Message to David and David's like, you know, well the sword slayed one has the other, you know
Just go go back and encourage out him. He's just kind of like indifferent towards the death of Uriah
Because in his mind is like plan accomplished, you know killed him and he knows that that Joab's not gonna do anything about it
So what do we see in regards to Joab in this particular story here? We see that he's not a man of integrity
He's not a man of honesty. He's not a man who is principled. Okay, and look
We all want to have loyal friends we all want to have loyal people in our lives
But there's a difference between being loyal and being willing to just sin in order to be loyal