Now the three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab and Abishai and Asahel. And Asahel [was as] fleet of foot as a wild gazelle.

Joab the son of Zeruiah [was] over the army; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud [was] recorder;

And Joab [was] over all the army of Israel; Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was] over the Cherethites and the Pelethites;

Then he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest, and they followed and helped Adonijah.

Then news came to Joab, for Joab had defected to Adonijah, though he had not defected to Absalom. So Joab fled to the tabernacle of the LORD, and took hold of the horns of the altar.

So Benaiah went to the tabernacle of the LORD, and said to him, "Thus says the king, 'Come out!' " And he said, "No, but I will die here." And Benaiah brought back word to the king, saying, "Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me."

"So the LORD will return his blood on his head, because he struck down two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword -- Abner the son of Ner, the commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, the commander of the army of Judah -- though my father David did not know [it.]

So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and struck and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.

Now their sisters [were] Zeruiah and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah [were] Abishai, Joab, and Asahel -- three.

they took all the men and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah; and they found him by the great pool that [is] in Gibeon.