"Far be it!" Joab declared. "Far be it from me to swallow up or destroy!
Cross References
2 Samuel 20:19I 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?"
2 Samuel 20:21That is not the case. But a man named Sheba son of Bichri, from the hill country of Ephraim, has lifted up his hand against the king, against David. Deliver him alone, and I will depart from the city." "Look," the woman replied, "his head will be thrown to you over the wall."
Treasury of Scripture
And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.
Far be it
2 Samuel 23:17
And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this: is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men.
Job 21:16
Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Job 22:18
Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
that I should
2 Samuel 20:10
But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
Proverbs 28:13
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
