PT Jan-67 - Herbert W. Armstrong Library and Archives

January, 1967
The PLAIN TRUTH
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my army against the Jebusites wi ll be made captain over all
my troops," David announced. "Of course he shall receive
extra pay .. ·
Joab and a picked company found the hidden passageway
and made their way inside. They Cjuickly made their way to
the wall.
David expected that any officer who accepted the dangerous
offer would come to him with a plan of some kind.
Only a short while later he was informed that many of his
men, using an ingenious system of projected hooks and ropes
had successfully scaled the walls and were fighting the Jebusites
inside Jerusalem. David guickly sent a large part of the
rest of his men to the heavy gates of the fortress, which were
opened by his troops inside. The Israelites on the outside
rushed through the gates to join their fellow soldiers in overcoming
the Jebusites.
When David learned who
had directed the successful plan,
he wished that it could have been
someone else. Joab was the man
on whom David had pronounced
terrible curses because of Joab's
murdering Abner. Because this
officer was an able military leader,
he had been allowed to continue
in David's army, though Israel's
leader had little respect for him
otherwise. Whatever his feelings
toward Joab, David kept his promise
and put him in command of
all
the troops that had come
against Jerusalem.
The stubborn Jebusites who
tried to hold the fortress, built
2,500 feet above sea level, were
either killed Or they surrendered.
(II Samuel 5 :6-10.)
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Under Joab's clever leadership, a part of the Israelite
army sca led Jerusalem 's towering fortress wall and
got inside the city.