2 Samuel 20:19
I am one of them, that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: and thou goest about to destroy a citie, and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou deuoure the inheritance of the Lord?
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
20And Ioab answered, and said, God forbid, God forbid it me, that I should deuoure, or destroy it.
Cross References
Genesis 18:23Then Abraham drewe neere, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
Numbers 16:32And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them vp, with their families, and all the men that were with Korah, and all their goods.
Deuteronomy 32:9For the Lordes portion is his people: Iaakob is the lot of his inheritance.
1 Samuel 10:1Then Samuel tooke a viole of oyle and powred it vpon his head, and kissed him, and saide, Hath not the Lord anointed thee to be gouernour ouer his inheritance?
2 Samuel 17:16Now therefore sende quickely, and shewe Dauid, saying, Tarie not this night in the fieldes of the wildernesse, but rather get thee ouer, lest the King be deuoured and all the people that are with him.
1 Kings 8:53For thou diddest separate them to thee from among all people of the earth for an inheritance, as thou saidest by the hand of Moses thy seruant, 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 →