2 Samuel 20:19-21

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

¹⁹ I am one of the peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city which is a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up the inheritance of the Lord?

²⁰ Joab answered, Far be it, far be it from me that I should swallow up or destroy!

²¹ That is not true. But a man of the hill country of Ephraim, Sheba son of Bichri, has lifted up his hand against King David. Deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said, Behold, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall.