2 Samuel 20:20 - New International Version (Anglicised)

²⁰ ‘Far be it from me!’ Joab replied, ‘Far be it from me to swallow up or destroy!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ Joab answered, Far be it, far be it from me that I should swallow up or destroy!

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Joab answered, “I would never, ever annihilate or destroy such a thing!

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ And responding, Joab said: "May this be far, may this be far from me! May I not cast down, and may I not demolish.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ And Joab answering said: God forbid, God forbid that I should I do not throw down, nor destroy.

2 Samuel 20:20 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 20:10

Amasa was not on his guard against the dagger in Joab’s hand, and Joab plunged it into his belly, and his intestines spilled out on the ground. Without being stabbed again, Amasa died. Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bikri.

2 Samuel 20:19

We are the peaceful and faithful in Israel. You are trying to destroy a city that is a mother in Israel. Why do you want to swallow up the Lord’s inheritance?’

2 Samuel 20:21

That is not the case. A man named Sheba son of Bikri, from the hill country of Ephraim, has lifted up his hand against the king, against David. Hand over this one man, and I’ll withdraw from the city.’ The woman said to Joab, ‘His head will be thrown to you from the wall.’

2 Samuel 23:17

‘Far be it from me, Lord, to do this!’ he said. ‘Is it not the blood of men who went at the risk of their lives?’ And David would not drink it. Such were the exploits of the three mighty warriors.

Job 21:16

But their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.

Job 22:18

Yet it was he who filled their houses with good things, so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.

Proverbs 28:13

Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

Luke 10:29

But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, ‘And who is my neighbour?’