David said to him, “How is it you were not afraid to put out your hand to destroy the Lord's anointed?”

How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood at your hand and destroy you from the earth?”

And now the whole clan has risen against your servant, and they say, ‘Give up the man who struck his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed.’ And so they would destroy the heir also. Thus they would quench my coal that is left and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant on the face of the earth.”

Then she said, “Please let the king invoke the Lord your God, that the avenger of blood kill no more, and my son be not destroyed.” He said, “As the Lord lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground.”

For the king will hear and deliver his servant from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together from the heritage of God.’

I am one of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city that is a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up the heritage of the Lord?”

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

They said to the king, “The man who consumed us and planned to destroy us, so that we should have no place in all the territory of Israel,

I pursued my enemies and destroyed them, and did not turn back until they were consumed.

You made my enemies turn their backs to me, those who hated me, and I destroyed them.

And when the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was working destruction among the people, “It is enough; now stay your hand.” And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.