Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Kings 2:5

5 Moreover, thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me , and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner, the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace , and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet .

i. e. Against me; Either, First, Directly and immediately; how insolently and imperiously he hath carried himself towards me from time to time, trampling upon my Authority and Commands when they thwarted his humor or interest, provoking my spirit by his words and actions. See 2 Sam. 3. 39. and 19. 7. Or, Secondly, Indirectly in what he did against Abner and Amasa: whose death was a great injury to David, as it was a breach of his Laws and Peace; a contempt of his Person and Government; a pernicious example to others of his Subjects upon the like occasions; a great scandal and dishonour to him, as if Ioab had been onely David's instrument, to effect what he secretly desired and designed; whereby the hearts of his People either were or might have been alienated from him, and inflamed against him, and the wounds which were well-nigh healed, might have been widened again, and made to bleed afresh.

Or, even; the following branches being added as an explication of the foregoing, to shew what and how he acted towards or against David. Or, and particularly; as his other miscarriages, so these especially.

He flew them as if they had been in the state and act of War, when there was not onely a Cessation of Arms, but also a treaty and agreement of Peace, of which also they were the great procurers and promoters.

This is added to note his impudence and impenitency, that although by his perfidions manner of killing them when he pretended to embrace them, he stained his own Garments with their Blood, yet he was not ashamed of it, but gloried in it, and Marched boldly along with the Army, with the same Girdle and Shoes which were sprinkled with their Blood. See 2 Sam. 20. 10.

Marginal references: 2 Sam. 3. 27.; 2 Sam. 20. 10.; Heb. put.