1 KINGS 2:30 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the Lord, and said unto him, Thus saith the king, Come forth. And he said, Nay; but I will die here. And Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.”
"So Benaiah went and fell upon him and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness." — Benaiah executes Joab (*va-yak otho va-yamut*) and buries him in his own house, in the *midbar* (wilderness/borderland). The burial is dishonorable—not in Jerusalem, not in a tomb, but in his own house. This mirrors the execution of Adonijah; both die violently and are removed from the normal sites of honor and dynasty.
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