The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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2 Samuel 20:15 (KJV)
And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.
 
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[h=1](2 Samuel 20:17): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h][FONT=&quot]17 So he approached her, and the woman said, “Are you Joab?” And he answered, “I am.” Then she said to him, “Listen to the words of your maidservant.” And he answered, “I am listening.”[/FONT]
 
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2 Samuel 20:18, "Then she spoke, saying, “In former times they often spoke, saying, ‘Let them inquire of Aḇĕl,’ and so they ended the matter."
 
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2 Samuel 20:20
New International Version (NIV)

“Far be it from me!” Joab replied, “Far be it from me to swallow up or destroy!
 
2 Samuel 20:21 (KJV)
The matter is not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, even against David: deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall.
 
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[h=1]2 Samuel 20:22English Standard Version Anglicised (ESVUK)[/h][FONT=&quot]22 Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri and threw it out to Joab. So he blew the trumpet, and they dispersed from the city, every man to his home. And Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.[/FONT]
 
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2 Samuel 21:1 (KJV)
Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
 
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2 Samuel 21:2 (HCSB)
The Gibeonites were not Israelites but rather a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had taken an oath concerning them, but Saul had tried to kill them in his zeal for the Israelites and Judah. So David summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them.
 
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2 Samuel 21:4 (KJV)
And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for you.
 
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2 Samuel 21:5
New International Version (NIV)

They answered the king, “As for the man who destroyed us and plotted against us so that we have been decimated and have no place anywhere in Israel,
 
2 Samuel 21:6, "let seven men of his sons be given to us, and we shall hang them before יהוה in Giḇ‛ah of Sha’ul, whom יהוה chose.” And the sovereign said, “I give them.”"
 
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