2 Samuel 20:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ Joab answered, “Far be it from me, far be it, that I should swallow up or destroy!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ Joab answered, Far be it, far be it from me that I should swallow up or destroy!

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

²⁰ Joab answered, “I would never, ever annihilate or destroy such a thing!

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ 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

²⁰ And Joab answering said: God forbid, God forbid that I should I do not throw down, nor destroy.

2 Samuel 20:20 Cross References

2 Samuel 20:10

But Amasa did not notice the sword in Joab’s hand; Joab struck him in the belly so that his entrails poured out on the ground, and he died. He did not strike a second blow. Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bichri.

2 Samuel 20:19

I am one of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel; you seek to destroy a city that is a mother in Israel; why will you swallow up the heritage of the Lord?”

2 Samuel 20:21

That is not the case! But a man of the hill country of Ephraim called Sheba son of Bichri has lifted up his hand against King David; give him up alone, and I will withdraw from the city.” The woman said to Joab, “His head shall be thrown over the wall to you.”

2 Samuel 23:17

for he said, “The Lord forbid that I should do this. Can I drink the blood of the men who went at the risk of their lives?” Therefore he would not drink it. The three warriors did these things.

Job 21:16

Is not their prosperity indeed their own achievement? The plans of the wicked are repugnant to me.

Job 22:18

Yet he filled their houses with good things— but the plans of the wicked are repugnant to me.

Proverbs 28:13

No one who conceals transgressions will prosper, but one who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is devious above all else; it is perverse— who can understand it?

Luke 10:29

But wanting to vindicate himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”