So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
Ver. 34. And he was buried in his own house in the wilderness,] i.e., In a forest, fit for pasturage, and but thinly inhabited. The Hebrews say that Joab's house here mentioned was a hospital that he built in the way for the harbouring of poor passengers: and that for this good deed his soul was saved. But of this none can judge, saith Pet. Martyr, because the Scripture saith nothing of it. But this it saith, that when Joab was dead and buried, Hadad the Edomite hearing thereof, returned out of Egypt into his own country, and became an adversary to Solomon, when once he forgot his God. 1Ki 11:14 ; 1Ki 11:22