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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