2 Samuel 20:20
“And Ioab answered and saide, Farre be it, farre be it from me, that I should swallow vp or destroy.”
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2 Samuel 20:20 Context
18Then she spake, saying, They were wont to speake in old time, saying, They shall surely aske counsell at Abel: and so they ended the matter. 19I am one of them that are peaceable and faithfull in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a citie, and a mother in Israel: Why wilt thou swallow vp the inheritance of the Lord ? 20And Ioab answered and saide, Farre be it, farre be it from me, that I should swallow vp or destroy. 21The matter is not so: but a man of mount Ephraim (Sheba the sonne of Bichri by name) hath lift vp his hand against the king, euen against Dauid: deliuer him onely, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said vnto Ioab, Behold, his head shall be throwen to thee ouer the wall. 22Then the woman went vnto all the people in her wisedome, and they cut off the head of Sheba the sonne of Bichri, and cast it out to Ioab: and hee blew a trumpet, and they retired from the citie, euery man to his tent: & Ioab returned to Ierusalem vnto the king.
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And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.
- King James Version
Joab replied, "Far be it, far be it from me that I should swallow up or destroy!
- New American Standard Version (1995)