Bible Topics for Kids
ZERUIAH, Mother of three of David's great soldiers
1 Chronicles 2:16
and their sisters were ZERUIAH and Abigail. The sons of ZERUIAH: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three.
2 Samuel 2:18
The three sons of ZERUIAH were there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild gazelle.
2 Samuel 3:39
I am weak today, though anointed king. These men, the sons of ZERUIAH are too hard for me. May the LORD reward the evildoer according to his wickedness."
2 Samuel 16:9-11
9. Then Abishai the son of ZERUIAH said to the king, "Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head."
10. The king said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of ZERUIAH? Because he curses, and because the LORD has said to him, 'Curse David;' who then shall say, 'Why have you done so?'"
11. David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, "Behold, my son, who came out of my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD has invited him.
2 Samuel 17:25
Absalom set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to ZERUIAH, Joab's mother.