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2Sa 20:20 — And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

Far be it		2Sa 23:17; Job 21:16; Job 22:18
that I should		2Sa 20:10; Pro 28:13; Jer 17:9; Luk 10:29

Correlating Passages

Far be it

	2Sa 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

	2Sa 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.
	Pro 28:13	He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh [them] shall have mercy.
	Jer 17:9	The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?
	Luk 10:29	But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?

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Scott, Thomas. "2 Samuel 20:20," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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