2 Samuel 20:19

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

I am one of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel; you seek to destroy a city that is a mother in Israel; why will you swallow up the heritage of the Lord?”

Cross References

Genesis 18:23

Then Abraham came near and said, “Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

2 Samuel 14:16

For the king will hear and deliver his servant from the hand of the man who would cut both me and my son off from the heritage of God.’

2 Samuel 17:16

Therefore send quickly and tell David, ‘Do not lodge tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means cross over, lest the king and all the people who are with him be swallowed up.’ ”

2 Samuel 20:18

Then she said, “They used to say in the old days, ‘Let them inquire at Abel,’ and so they would settle a matter.

2 Samuel 20:20

Joab answered, “Far be it from me, far be it, that I should swallow up or destroy!

2 Samuel 21:3

David said to the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? How shall I make expiation, that you may bless the heritage of the Lord?”

1 Kings 8:53

For you have separated them from among all the peoples of the earth to be your heritage, just as you promised through Moses, your servant, when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt, O Lord God.”

Psalm 106:5

that we may see the prosperity of your chosen ones, that we may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that we may glory in your heritage.

Psalm 124:3

then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us;

Psalm 33:12

Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage.

Psalm 78:71

from tending the nursing ewes he brought him to be the shepherd of his people Jacob, of Israel, his inheritance.

Jeremiah 51:34

“King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he has filled his belly with my delicacies; he has spewed me out.

Jeremiah 51:44

I will punish Bel in Babylon and make him disgorge what he has swallowed. The nations shall no longer stream to him; the wall of Babylon has fallen.

Lamentations 2:16

All your enemies open their mouths against you; they hiss, they gnash their teeth, they cry: “We have devoured her! Ah, this is the day we longed for; at last we have seen it!”

Lamentations 2:2

The Lord has destroyed without mercy all the dwellings of Jacob; in his wrath he has broken down the strongholds of daughter Judah; he has brought down to the ground in dishonor the kingdom and its rulers.

Lamentations 2:5

The Lord has become like an enemy; he has destroyed Israel. He has destroyed all its palaces, laid in ruins its strongholds, and multiplied in daughter Judah mourning and lamentation.

Numbers 16:32

The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, along with their households—everyone who belonged to Korah and all their goods.

Numbers 26:10

and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up along with Korah, when that congregation died, when the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a warning.

1 Corinthians 15:54

When this perishable body puts on imperishability and this mortal body puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will be fulfilled: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”

2 Corinthians 5:4

For while we are in this tent, we groan under our burden because we wish not to be unclothed but to be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

Deuteronomy 20:10

“When you draw near to a town to fight against it, offer it terms of peace.

Deuteronomy 32:9

the Lord’s own portion was his people, Jacob his allotted share.

1 Timothy 2:2

for kings and all who are in high positions, so that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and dignity.

Judges 5:7

The peasantry prospered in Israel; they grew fat on plunder, because you arose, Deborah, arose as a mother in Israel.

1 Samuel 10:1

Samuel took a vial of oil and poured it on his head and kissed him; he said, “The Lord has anointed you ruler over his people Israel. You shall reign over the people of the Lord, and you will save them from the hand of their enemies all around. Now this shall be the sign to you that the Lord has anointed you ruler over his heritage:

1 Samuel 26:19

Now, therefore, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is the Lord who has stirred you up against me, may he accept an offering, but if it is mortals, may they be cursed before the Lord, for they have driven me out today from my share in the heritage of the Lord, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’