2 Samuel 20:20

American Standard Version (1901)

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, desiring to justify himself, said unto 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 that covereth his transgressions shall not prosper; But whoso confesseth and forsaketh 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, their prosperity is 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 Jehovah, 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.

2 Samuel 20:10

But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand: so he smote him therewith 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 the son of Bichri.

2 Samuel 20:19

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?

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, 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.