2 Samuel 20:19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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?

Peaceable

Genesis 18:23

Romans 13:3

1 Timothy 2:2

A mother

Judges 5:7

Ezekiel 16:45

Swallow

The inheritance

General references

Romans 12:18

Bible References

Peaceable

Abraham drew near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?

For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the same,

for kings and all who are in high places; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.

A mother

The rulers ceased in Israel. They ceased until I, Deborah, arose; Until I arose a mother in Israel.

You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

Swallow

Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, 'Don't lodge this night at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who are with him.'"

and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who appertained to Korah, and all their goods.

and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died; what time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign.

then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has, like a monster, swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my delicacies; he has cast me out.

The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied: He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; he has profaned the kingdom and its princes.

But when this corruptible will have put on incorruption, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: "Death is swallowed up in victory."

For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

The inheritance

and David said to the Gibeonites, "What shall I do for you? And with what shall I make atonement, that you may bless the inheritance of Yahweh?"

Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;

For Yahweh's portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that Yahweh has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven me out this day that I shouldn't cling to Yahweh's inheritance, saying, 'Go, serve other gods!'

General references

If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.