2 Samuel 20:18 WEB

¹⁶  Then cried a wise woman out of the city, 'Hear, hear! Please say to Joab, 'Come near here, that I may speak with you.''

¹⁷  He came near to her; and the woman said, Are you Joab? He answered, I am. Then she said to him, Hear the words of your handmaid. He answered, I do hear.

¹⁸  Then she spoke, saying, They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask [counsel] at Abel: and so they ended [the matter].

¹⁹  I am of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel: you seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why will you swallow up the inheritance of Yahweh?

²⁰  Joab answered, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.