2 Samuel 20:18-20

Darby Translation

¹⁸ And she spoke saying, They were wont to speak in old time saying, Just inquire in Abel; and so they ended.

¹⁹ I am 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?

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