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2 Samuel 20:19

I 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?”

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ASV

I am of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of Jehovah?

KJV

I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the Lord?

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14 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
אָנֹכִ֕י'a.no.KhiIH595 →
שְׁלֻמֵ֖יshe.lu.Mei[am] [the] peaceful [ones] ofH7999 →
אֱמוּנֵ֣י'e.mu.Nei[the] faithful [ones] ofH529 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לYis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478 →
אַתָּ֣ה'a.TahyouH859 →
מְבַקֵּ֗שׁme.va.Kesh[are] seekingH1245 →
לְהָמִ֨יתle.ha.Mitto killH4191 →
עִ֤יר'ira cityH5892 →
וְאֵם֙ve.'Emand a motherH517 →
בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֔לbe.Yis.ra.'Elin IsraelH3478 →
לָ֥מָּהLa.mah<to> why?H4100 →
תְבַלַּ֖עte.va.La'will you swallow upH1104 →
נַחֲלַ֥תna.cha.Lat[the] inheritance ofH5159 →
יְהוָֽה׃ פYah.wehYahwehH3068 →

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1 Samuel 26:19Now please, may my lord the king hear the words of his servant: If the LORD has stirred you up against me, then may He accept an offering. But if men have done it, may they be cursed in the presence of the LORD! For today they have driven me away from sharing in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’2 Samuel 21:3So David asked the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? How can I make amends so that you may bless the inheritance of the LORD?”Romans 12:18If it is possible on your part, live at peace with everyone.2 Samuel 17:16Now send quickly and tell David, ‘Do not spend the night at the fords of the wilderness, but be sure to cross over. Otherwise the king and all the people with him will be swallowed up.’”1 Timothy 2:2for kings and all those in authority—so that we may lead tranquil and quiet lives in all godliness and dignity.Micah 2:8But of late My people have risen up like an enemy: You strip off the splendid robe from unsuspecting passersby like men returning from battle.2 Corinthians 5:4So while we are in this tent, we groan under our burdens, because we do not wish to be unclothed but clothed, so that our mortality may be swallowed up by life.1 Corinthians 15:54When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come to pass: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”Judges 5:7Life in the villages ceased; it ended in Israel, until I, Deborah, arose, a mother in Israel.Jeremiah 51:44I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.Numbers 16:32and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households—all Korah’s men and all their possessions.Lamentations 2:16All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see it!”Jeremiah 51:34“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.Ezekiel 16:45–49You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.Lamentations 2:2Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah. He brought to the ground and defiled her kingdom and its princes.Deuteronomy 32:9But the LORD’s portion is His people, Jacob His allotted inheritance.Genesis 18:23Abraham stepped forward and said, “Will You really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?Psalms 124:3when their anger flared against us, then they would have swallowed us alive,

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David Mourns the Death of Absalom — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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