2 Samuel 20:19

Good News Translation

Ours is a great city, one of the most peaceful and loyal in Israel. Why are you trying to destroy it? Do you want to ruin what belongs to the Lord?”

Cross References

Genesis 18:23

Abraham approached the Lord and asked, “Are you really going to destroy the innocent with the guilty?

2 Samuel 14:16

I thought you would listen to me and save me from the one who is trying to kill my son and me and so remove us from the land God gave his people.

2 Samuel 17:16

Hushai added, “Quick, now! Send a message to David not to spend the night at the river crossings in the wilderness, but to cross the Jordan at once, so that he and his men won't all be caught and killed.”

2 Samuel 20:18

She said, “Long ago they used to say, ‘Go and get your answer in the city of Abel’—and that's just what they did.

2 Samuel 20:20

“Never!” Joab answered. “I will never ruin or destroy your city!

2 Samuel 21:3

So David summoned the people of Gibeon and said to them, “What can I do for you? I want to make up for the wrong that was done to you, so that you will bless the Lord's people.”

1 Kings 8:53

You chose them from all the peoples to be your own people, as you told them through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”

Psalm 106:5

Let me see the prosperity of your people and share in the happiness of your nation, in the glad pride of those who belong to you.

Psalm 124:3

then they would have swallowed us alive in their furious anger against us;

Psalm 33:12

Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord; happy are the people he has chosen for his own!

Psalm 78:71

where he looked after his flocks, and he made him king of Israel, the shepherd of the people of God.

Jeremiah 51:34

The king of Babylonia cut Jerusalem up and ate it. He emptied the city like a jar; like a monster he swallowed it. He took what he wanted and threw the rest away.

Jeremiah 51:44

I will punish Bel, the god of Babylonia, and make him give up his stolen goods; the nations will not worship him any more. “Babylon's walls have fallen.

Lamentations 2:16

All your enemies mock you and glare at you with hate. They curl their lips and sneer, “We have destroyed it! This is the day we have waited for!”

Lamentations 2:2

The Lord destroyed without mercy every village in Judah And tore down the forts that defended the land. He brought disgrace on the kingdom and its rulers.

Lamentations 2:5

Like an enemy, the Lord has destroyed Israel; He has left her forts and palaces in ruins. He has brought on the people of Judah unending sorrow.

Numbers 16:32

and swallowed them and their families, together with all of Korah's followers and their possessions.

Numbers 26:10

The ground opened and swallowed them, and they died with Korah and his followers when fire destroyed 250 men; they became a warning to the people.

1 Corinthians 15:54

So when this takes place, and the mortal has been changed into the immortal, then the scripture will come true: “Death is destroyed; victory is complete!”

2 Corinthians 5:4

While we live in this earthly tent, we groan with a feeling of oppression; it is not that we want to get rid of our earthly body, but that we want to have the heavenly one put on over us, so that what is mortal will be transformed by life.

Deuteronomy 20:10

“When you go to attack a city, first give its people a chance to surrender.

Deuteronomy 32:9

but Jacob's descendants he chose for himself.

1 Timothy 2:2

for kings and all others who are in authority, that we may live a quiet and peaceful life with all reverence toward God and with proper conduct.

Judges 5:7

The towns of Israel stood abandoned, Deborah; they stood empty until you came, came like a mother for Israel.

1 Samuel 10:1

Then Samuel took a jar of olive oil and poured it on Saul's head, kissed him, and said, “The Lord anoints you as ruler of his people Israel. You will rule his people and protect them from all their enemies. And this is the proof to you that the Lord has chosen you to be the ruler of his people:

1 Samuel 26:19

Your Majesty, listen to what I have to say. If it is the Lord who has turned you against me, an offering to him will make him change his mind; but if some people have done it, may the Lord's curse fall on them. For they have driven me out from the Lord's land to a country where I can only worship foreign gods.