2 Samuel 20:19-21

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁹ Am not I she that answer truth in Israel, and thou seekest to destroy the city, and to overthrow a mother in Israel? Why wilt thou throw down the inheritance of the Lord?

²⁰ And Joab answering said: God forbid, God forbid that I should, I do not throw down, nor destroy.

²¹ The matter is not so, but a man of mount Ephraim, Seba the son of Bochri by name, hath lifted up his hand against king David: deliver him only, and we will depart from the city. And the woman said to Joab: Behold his head shall be thrown to thee from the wall.