* What hast.
   Joab and his brother Abishai, David's nephews, had been very
   faithful and highly useful to him in his distresses; and, from
   gratitude and natural affection, he had inadvertently
   permitted them to assume almost as much ascendancy over him as
   Abner had over the pusillanimous Ishbosheth:  he trusted and
   feared them too much, and allowed them all the importance they
   claimed; which had emboldened them, especially Joab, to a high
   degree of presumption.

  8,39  19:5-7  Nu 23:11  Joh 18:35