2 Samuel 20:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Joab answered, Far be it, far be it from me that I should swallow up or destroy! American Standard Version (1901) And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy. Common English Bible Joab answered, “I would never, ever annihilate or destroy such a thing! Catholic Public Domain Version And responding, Joab said: "May this be far, may this be far from me! May I not cast down, and may I not demolish. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Joab answering said: God forbid, God forbid that I should I do not throw down, nor destroy. |
But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he smote him therewith in the belly, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. And Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
I am 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?
The matter is not so: but a man of the hill country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, even against David: deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall.
And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this: shall I drink the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.
Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me
Yet he fired their houses with good things: But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
He that covereth his transgressions shall not prosper: But whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain mercy.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is desperately sick: who can know it?
But he, desiring to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?