Zeruiah
♀Description
Sister (or half-sister) of David; mother of Joab, Abishai, and Asahel.
Relationships
Family tree
Two generations up and down. Click any other person to recenter the tree on them. Solid lines are parent-of relationships; dashed pink lines are spouses; dashed amber lines are debated/tradition-divergent edges.
Notes
2 Samuel 17:25 calls her sister of Abigail and daughter of Nahash, while 1 Chronicles 2:16 makes both Zeruiah and Abigail daughters of Jesse — likely Nahash was their mother's first husband (or 'Nahash' is a textual variant).