American King James Version
" And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy. "
— 2 Samuel 20:20, American King James Version
“And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.”
“And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy. ”
“Joab answered, "Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.”
“Joab answered,“Get serious! I don’t want to swallow up or destroy anything!”
“And Joab answering said: God forbid, God forbid that I should, I do not throw down, nor destroy.”
“And Joab, answering her, said, Far, far be it from me to be a cause of death or destruction;”
“And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.”
And when he was come near to her, the woman said, Are you Joab? And he answered, I am he. Then she said to him, Hear the words of your handmaid. And he answered, I do hear.
Then she spoke, saying, They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask counsel at Abel: and so they ended the matter.
I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: you seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why will you swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?
And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.
The matter is not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against the king, even against David: deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said to Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall.
Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast it out to Joab. And he blew a trumpet, and they retired from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king. ¶
Now Joab was over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites: