2 Samuel 20:19 - Tree of Life Version

¹⁹ I am of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. Are you seeking to destroy a mother city in Israel? Why would you devour Adonai’s inheritance?”

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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?"

2 Samuel 20:19 Cross References

Genesis 18:23

Abraham drew near and said, “Will you really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

2 Samuel 14:16

Surely the king will hear, to deliver his maidservant from the hand of the one who would eliminate both me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.’

2 Samuel 17:16

Now therefore send word quickly and tell David saying, ‘Don’t spend the night at the fords in the wilderness but by all means, cross over or else the king and all the people with him may be swallowed up.’”

2 Samuel 20:18

Then she spoke up saying, “They used to say in old time, ‘They shall surely seek counsel at Abel and that’s how they settled any dispute.

2 Samuel 20:20

Joab replied saying, “Never! Far be it from me that I would devour up or ruin.

2 Samuel 21:3

David asked the Gibeonites, “What should I do for you? How may I make atonement so that you would bless the inheritance of Adonai?”

1 Kings 8:53

For You have set them apart from among all the peoples of the earth to be Your inheritance, as You spoke by the hand of Moses Your servant, when You brought our fathers out of Egypt, my Lord Adonai.”

Psalm 106:5

so I may behold the prosperity of Your chosen ones, exult in the joy of Your nation, and give praise with Your inheritance.

Psalm 124:3

then they would have swallowed us alive, when their wrath burned against us.

Psalm 33:12

Blessed is the nation whose God is Adonai, the people He chose for His own inheritance.

Psalm 78:71

from following nursing ewes. He brought him to shepherd Jacob His people, and Israel His inheritance.

Jeremiah 51:34

“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me, crushed me, set me aside like an empty dish, swallowed me up like a dragon, filled his belly with my delicacies, rinsed me away.”

Jeremiah 51:44

I will punish Bel in Babylon— What he swallowed I will make him disgorge out of his mouth. Nations will no longer stream to him. Yes, the wall of Babylon has fallen!

Lamentations 2:16

All your enemies opened their mouth wide against you; they hissed and gnashed their teeth, and say, “We have swallowed her up! Surely this is the day we have waited for; we have lived to see it!”

Lamentations 2:2

My Lord has mercilessly swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. He threw down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah in His fury. He knocked to the ground and humiliated the kingdom and its princes.

Lamentations 2:5

My Lord is like an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He swallowed up all her citadels, destroyed her fortifications and multiplied mourning and moaning for the daughter of Judah.

Numbers 16:32

The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, along with all their households, all of Korah’s people and all their possessions.

Numbers 26:10

Then the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them with Korah, whose followers died when the fire consumed the 250 men, these men serving as a warning.

1 Corinthians 15:54

But when this corruptible will have put on incorruptibility and this mortal will have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

2 Corinthians 5:4

For we groan while we are in this tent—burdened because we don’t want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

Deuteronomy 20:10

“When you go near a city to fight against it, call out shalom to it.

Deuteronomy 32:9

But Adonai’s portion is His people— Jacob is the share of His inheritance.

1 Timothy 2:2

for kings and all who are in authority—so we may live a peaceful and quiet life in all godliness and respectfulness.

Judges 5:7

Villages were deserted in Israel, deserted, until I, Deborah, arose, a mother in Israel arose.

1 Samuel 10:1

Then Samuel took the vial of oil and poured it on his head. Then he kissed him and said, “Has Adonai not anointed you ruler over His inheritance?

1 Samuel 26:19

Now please, let my lord the king listen to the words of his servant. If Adonai has stirred you up against me, let Him accept an offering. But if men have done so, then cursed are they before Adonai, because they have now driven me out that I would not cling to Adonai’s inheritance, saying: ‘Go, worship other gods.’