“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 inheritance of the Lord?"”
David's reign as king of Israel, his triumphs and failures.
Old Testament • Book #10
He came near to her; and the woman said, "Are you Joab?" He answered, "I am." Then she said to him, ...
II Samuel 20:18Then she spoke, saying, "They were used to say in old times, 'They shall surely ask counsel at Abel;...
II Samuel 20:20Joab answered, "Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.
II Samuel 20:21The matter is not so. But a man of the hill country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has...
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