Week 7: Friday An Idea Whose Time Has Come

When Sheba rebelled against King David, Joab, the commander of thearmy, trapped him in the city of Abel Beth Maacah. As the siege engineswere positioned and they started battering the walls, a wise womanapproached Joab. She explained that they were the peaceful and faithfulin Israel, and that destroying a city that was a mother in Israel made nosense. Why are you doing this?Simple: we want Sheba…dead or alive. The woman said to Joab, “Hishead shall be thrown to you over the wall” (2 Samuel 20:21, ESV).Problem solved.