2 Samuel 20:18 BBE

¹⁶  Then a wise woman got up on the wall, and crying out from the town, said, Give ear, give ear; say now to Joab, Come near, so that I may have talk with you.

¹⁷  And he came near, and the woman said, Are you Joab? And he said in answer, I am. Then she said, Give ear to your servant's words. And he said, I am giving ear.

¹⁸  Then she said, In the old days, there was a saying, Let them put the question in Abel and in Dan, saying, Has what was ordered by men of good faith in Israel ever come to an end?

¹⁹  Your purpose is the destruction of a mother-town in Israel: why would you put an end to the heritage of the Lord?

²⁰  And Joab, answering her, said, Far, far be it from me to be a cause of death or destruction;