2 Samuel 20:19 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁹ I am one of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel; you seek to destroy a city which is a mother in Israel; why will you swallow up the heritage of the Lord?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ 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?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ I am one of the peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city which is a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up the inheritance of the Lord?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ 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 Jehovah?

Common English Bible

¹⁹ I am one of the peaceful and faithful in Israel, but you are trying to kill a city that is one of Israel’s mothers! Why would you annihilate the LORD’s inheritance?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ Am I not the one who responds with the truth in Israel? And yet you are seeking to overthrow the city, and to overturn a mother in Israel! Why would you cast down the inheritance of the Lord?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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?

2 Samuel 20:19 Cross References

Genesis 18:23

Then Abraham drew near, and said, “Wilt thou indeed destroy the righteous with the wicked?

2 Samuel 14:16

For the king will hear, and deliver his servant from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together from the heritage of God.’

2 Samuel 17:16

Now therefore send quickly and tell David, ‘Do not lodge tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king and all the people who are with him be swallowed up.’ ”

2 Samuel 20:18

Then she said, “They were wont to say in old time, ‘Let them but ask counsel at Abel’; and so they settled a matter.

2 Samuel 20:20

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

2 Samuel 21:3

And David said to the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? And how shall I make expiation, that you may bless the heritage of the Lord?”

1 Kings 8:53

For thou didst separate them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be thy heritage, as thou didst declare through Moses, thy servant, when thou didst bring our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.”

Psalm 106:5

that I may see the prosperity of thy chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thy heritage.

Psalm 124:3

then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us;

Psalm 33:12

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!

Psalm 78:71

from tending the ewes that had young he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob his people, of Israel his inheritance.

Jeremiah 51:34

“Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel, he has swallowed me like a monster; he has filled his belly with my delicacies, he has rinsed me out.

Jeremiah 51:44

And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what he has swallowed. The nations shall no longer flow to him; the wall of Babylon has fallen.

Lamentations 2:16

All your enemies rail against you; they hiss, they gnash their teeth, they cry: “We have destroyed her! Ah, this is the day we longed for; now we have it; we see it!”

Lamentations 2:2

The Lord has destroyed without mercy all the habitations of Jacob; in his wrath he has broken down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought down to the ground in dishonor the kingdom and its rulers.

Lamentations 2:5

The Lord has become like an enemy, he has destroyed Israel; he has destroyed all its palaces, laid in ruins its strongholds; and he has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

Numbers 16:32

and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the men that belonged to Korah and all their goods.

Numbers 26:10

and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, when the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men; and they became a warning.

1 Corinthians 15:54

When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

2 Corinthians 5:4

For while we are still in this tent, we sigh with anxiety; not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

Deuteronomy 20:10

“When you draw near to a city to fight against it, offer terms of peace to it.

Deuteronomy 32:9

For the Lord's portion is his people, Jacob his allotted heritage.

1 Timothy 2:2

for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life, godly and respectful in every way.

Judges 5:7

The peasantry ceased in Israel, they ceased until you arose, Deborah, arose as a mother in Israel.

1 Samuel 10:1

Then Samuel took a vial of oil and poured it on his head, and kissed him and said, “Has not the Lord anointed you to be prince over his people Israel? And you shall reign over the people of the Lord and you will save them from the hand of their enemies round about. And this shall be the sign to you that the Lord has anointed you to be prince over his heritage.

1 Samuel 26:19

Now therefore let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is the Lord who has stirred you up against me, may he accept an offering; but if it is men, may they be cursed before the Lord, for they have driven me out this day that I should have no share in the heritage of the Lord, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’