2 Samuel 20:19-21

New International Reader's Version

¹⁹ We are the most peaceful and faithful people in Israel. You are trying to destroy a city that is like a mother in Israel. Why do you want to swallow up what belongs to the Lord?”

²⁰ “I would never do anything like that!” Joab said. “I would never swallow up or destroy what belongs to the Lord! ²¹ That isn’t what I have in mind at all. There’s a man named Sheba, the son of Bikri, in your city. He’s from the hill country of Ephraim. He’s trying to kill King David. Hand that man over to me. Then I’ll pull my men back from your city.”

The woman said to Joab, “We’ll throw his head down to you from the wall.”