2 Samuel 20:19

I am a peaceful one of the strong ones in Israel; but you seek to destroy a city and a mother city in Israel: why do you seek to ruin the inheritance of the Lord?

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?

In Context

18And she spoke, saying, + 20:18 Gr. they spoke a word among the first, saying. Of old time they said thus, Surely one was asked in Abel, and Dan, whether the faithful in Israel failed in what they purposed; they will surely ask in Abel, even in like manner, whether they have failed.

20And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should ruin or destroy.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:23And Abraam drew near and said, Wouldest you destroy the righteous with the wicked, and shall the righteous be as the wicked?

Numbers 16:32And the ground opened, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that were with Core, and their cattle.

Deuteronomy 32:9And his people Jacob became the portion of the Lord, Israel was the line of his inheritance.

1 Samuel 10:1And Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it on his head, and kissed him, and said to him, Has not the Lord anointed you for a ruler over his people, over Israel? and you shall rule among the people of the Lord, and you shall save them out of the hand of their enemies; and this shall be the sign to you that the Lord has anointed you for a ruler over his inheritance.

2 Samuel 17:16And now send quickly and report to David, saying, Lodge not this night in Araboth of the wilderness: even go and make haste, lest one + 17:16 Alex. καταπίῃ. swallow up the king, and all the people with him.

1 Kings 8:53Because you have set them apart for an inheritance to yourself out of all the nations of the earth, as you spoke by the hand of your servant Moses, when you brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, + 8:53 Gr. Lord, Lord, i.e. according to the Heb. Lord Jehovah. O Lord God.—Then spoke Solomon concerning the house, when he had finished building it—He manifested the sun in the heaven: the Lord said he would dwell in darkness: build you my house, a beautiful house for yourself to dwell in anew. Behold, is not this written in the book of the song?

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 →

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