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Joab Reprimands David

19 Joab was told that King David was weeping and mourning for Absalom. And so the joy of victory was turned into sadness for all of David's troops that day, because they heard that the king was mourning for his son. They went back into the city quietly, like soldiers who are ashamed because they are running away from battle.

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