2 Samuel 20:20

New Living Translation

And Joab replied, “Believe me, I don’t want to devour or destroy your town!

Cross References

2 Samuel 20:10

Amasa didn’t notice the dagger in his left hand, and Joab stabbed him in the stomach with it so that his insides gushed out onto the ground. Joab did not need to strike again, and Amasa soon died. Joab and his brother Abishai left him lying there and continued after Sheba.

2 Samuel 20:19

I am one who is peace loving and faithful in Israel. But you are destroying an important town in Israel. Why do you want to devour what belongs to the Lord?”

2 Samuel 20:21

That’s not my purpose. All I want is a man named Sheba son of Bicri from the hill country of Ephraim, who has revolted against King David. If you hand over this one man to me, I will leave the town in peace.” “All right,” the woman replied, “we will throw his head over the wall to you.”

2 Samuel 23:17

“The Lord forbid that I should drink this!” he exclaimed. “This water is as precious as the blood of these men who risked their lives to bring it to me.” So David did not drink it. These are examples of the exploits of the Three.

Job 21:16

(They think their prosperity is of their own doing, but I will have nothing to do with that kind of thinking.)

Job 22:18

Yet he was the one who filled their homes with good things, so I will have nothing to do with that kind of thinking.

Proverbs 28:13

People who conceal their sins will not prosper, but if they confess and turn from them, they will receive mercy.

Jeremiah 17:9

“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?

Luke 10:29

The man wanted to justify his actions, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”