2 Samuel 20:19
I am among the peaceable and faithful in Israel, but you are trying to destroy a city that is a mother in Israel. Why would you swallow up the Lord’s inheritance?”
I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the Lord?
I am among those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up the Lord’s inheritance?”
I am of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of Jehovah?
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- peaceable
- Genesis 18:23; Romans 13:3, 4; 1 Timothy 2:2
- a mother
- Judges 5:7; Ezekiel 16:45–49
- swallow
- 2 Samuel 17:16; Numbers 16:32; Numbers 26:10; Psalm 124:3; Jeremiah 51:34, 44; Lamentations 2:2, 5, 16; 1 Corinthians 15:54; 2 Corinthians 5:4
- the inheritance
- 2 Samuel 21:3; Exodus 19:5, 6; Deuteronomy 32:9; 1 Samuel 26:19