Bible Strands
2 Samuel 14:22
Joab fell facedown in homage and blessed the king. “Today,” said Joab, “your servant knows that he has found favor in your eyes, my lord the king, because the king has granted his request.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Joab addresses King David immediately after David grants the request to retrieve Absalom from Geshur.
The words — The text records Joab falling to the ground (וַיִּפֹּל אַרְצָה) and bowing down (וַיִּשְׁתַּחוּ) while verbally blessing the monarch.
The thread — Joab’s explicit claim that he has found favor in the king’s eyes aligns with the scriptural pattern of favor cited in Genesis 6:8 and Exodus 33:16.
Why it lands — The verse demands the reader observe that political submission and royal favor are directly linked to the king’s immediate compliance with a specific request.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And Joab fell to the ground on his face, and bowed himself, and thanked the king: and Joab said, To day thy servant knoweth that I have found grace in thy sight, my lord, O king, in that the king hath fulfilled the request of his servant.
Cross-references
- Genesis 6:8 Noah, however, found favor in the eyes of the LORD.
- Exodus 33:16 For how then can it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your sight, unless You go with us? How else will we be distinguished from all the other people on the face of the earth?”
- Ruth 2:2 And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go into the fields and glean heads of grain after someone in whose sight I may find favor.” “Go ahead, my daughter,” Naomi replied.
- 1 Samuel 20:3 But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”
- 2 Samuel 19:39 So all the people crossed the Jordan, and then the king crossed over. The king kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and Barzillai returned home.
- Nehemiah 11:2 And the people blessed all the men who volunteered to live in Jerusalem.
- Job 29:11 For those who heard me called me blessed, and those who saw me commended me,
- Job 31:20 if his heart has not blessed me for warming him with the fleece of my sheep,
- Proverbs 31:28 Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband praises her as well: