The Political Soul #IamJoab

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*  Dedicated to #IamJoab

+--------The Political Soul; The Last Words Of  Joab To Benaiah  Before His Murder 

And you know the rules of this game
of wolves…(in sheep’s skin)
of bureaucracy politick, of craft,
shrewdness, guile. Philistine enemies,
Philistine friends. Of not eating
so your soul preys in the King's court
hungry, emaciated. Never sleeping
so you slip quietly each night into
shades of induced insanity, strained
eyes fueled by anger of deprivation,
a scent of blood and deceit, riches,
and sex always. You know the game
Benaiah. Abner, Absalom, Uriah:
pawns OF MY OWN SURVIVAL!
THERE WAS NO OTHER WAY!!!
to hunt snakes than to slither, hiss,
and murder. May God, may my father,
have mercy on my soul…the stained
soul proper …of a politician.

------1 Kings 2:28-35
When the news reached Joab, who had conspired with Adonijah though not with Absalom, he fled to the tent of the Lord and took hold of the horns of the altar. King Solomon was told that Joab had fled to the tent of the Lord and was beside the altar. Then Solomon ordered Benaiah son of Jehoiada, “Go, strike him down!” So Benaiah entered the tent of the Lord and said to Joab, “The king says, ‘Come out!’” But he answered, “No, I will die here.” Benaiah reported to the king, “This is how Joab answered me.” Then the king commanded Benaiah, “Do as he says. Strike him down and bury him, and so clear me and my whole family of the guilt of the innocent blood that Joab shed. The Lord will repay him for the blood he shed, because without my father David knowing it he attacked two men and killed them with the sword. Both of them—Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army—were better men and more upright than he. May the guilt of their blood rest on the head of Joab and his descendants forever. But on David and his descendants, his house and his throne, may there be the Lord’s peace forever.” So Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up and struck down Joab and killed him, and he was buried at his home out in the country. The king put Benaiah son of Jehoiada over the army in Joab’s position and replaced Abiathar with Zadok the priest.