Word: joab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said King David to his downcast general, Joab, during a battle with the Ammonites for the city that is today the Jordanian capital of Amman. And so said Israel's Defense Minister Moshe Dayan last week in similar circumstances. Dayan was in the port city of Eilat, surveying the capsized hulk of an Israeli supply ship sunk by Egyptian limpet mines, when he quoted the Second Book of Samuel. Hours later, as if in response to his exhortation, Israeli airmen over the Gulf of Suez sank an Egyptian mine layer that normally carries a crew...