2 Samuel 20:20

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

Luke 10:29

But he, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbor?

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

Proverbs 28:13

He who covers his transgressions shall not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them shall obtain mercy.

Job 22:18

Yet he filled their houses with good things. But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Job 21:16

Lo, [is] their prosperity not in their hand. (The counsel of the wicked is far from me.)

2 Samuel 23:17

And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this, [to drink] the blood of the men who went in jeopardy of their lives? Therefore he would not drink it. These things the three mighty men did.

2 Samuel 20:10

But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand. So he smote him with it in the body, 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 th

2 Samuel 20:19

I am of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. Thou seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why will thou swallow up the inheritance of LORD?

2 Samuel 20:21

The matter is not so, but a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against the king, even against David. Deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said to