2 Samuel 20:19
Am not I she that answer truth in Israel, and thou seekest to destroy the city, and to overthrow a mother in Israel? Why wilt thou throw down the inheritance of the Lord?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
20And Joab answering said: God forbid, God forbid that I should, I do not throw down, nor destroy.
Cross References
Genesis 18:23And drawing nigh he said: Wilt thou destroy the just with the wicked?
Numbers 16:32And opening her mouth, devoured them with their tents and all their substance.
Deuteronomy 32:9But the Lord's portion is his people: Jacob the lot of his inheritance.
1 Samuel 10:1And Samuel took a little vial of oil and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said: Behold, the Lord hath anointed thee to be prince over his inheritance, and thou shalt deliver his people out of the hands of their enemies, that are round about them. And this shall be a sign unto thee, that God hath anointed thee to be prince.
2 Samuel 17:16Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying: Tarry not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but without delay pass over: lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that is with him.
1 Kings 8:53For thou hast separated them to thyself for an inheritance from among all the people of the earth, as thou hast spoken by Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 20:15-23
Sheba Pursued. ( b. c. 1023.) 14 And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and to Beth-maachah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and went also after him. 15 And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down. 16 Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with… Read the whole commentary →