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Asahel. The third of the second three.
brother of Joab, but not Joab. His name here but not himself, because when the time of the end comes. with its "last words", loyalty will be the one test. Joab remained true in Absalom's rebellion, but fell away in Adonijah's. Hence in 1Co_16:22 "love" is the test, in the light of "Maranatha", not the "strifes" of 1Co 3, or the wrong judgments of 1Co 4, or the uncleanness of 1Co 5, or going to law of 1Co 6; not the fornication of 1Co 7, not a wrong conscience of 1Co 9and 1Co 10, not ecclesiastical disorders of 1Co 11, not the misuse of special gifts (1Co 12, 1Co 13, 1Co 14), not orthodoxy (1Co 15), but "love" and loyalty to the Person of Christ, the true David, David's son and David's Lord.