2 Samuel 14:16

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

2 Samuel 14:16

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

For the king will hear and deliver his maidservant from the hand of the man who would cut off both me and my son from God’s inheritance.’

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KJV

King James Version

For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man [that would] destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

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WEB

World English Bible

For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

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ASV

American Standard Version

For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

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2 Samuel 14

¹⁴ For we will surely die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life, but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.

¹⁵ Now therefore, I have come to present this matter to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. Your servant thought, ‘I will speak to the king. Perhaps he will grant the request of his maidservant.

¹⁶ For the king will hear and deliver his maidservant from the hand of the man who would cut off both me and my son from God’s inheritance.’

¹⁷ And now your servant says, ‘May the word of my lord the king bring me rest, for my lord the king is able to discern good and evil, just like the angel of God. May the LORD your God be with you.’”

¹⁸ Then the king said to the woman, “I am going to ask you something; do not conceal it from me!” “Let my lord the king speak,” she replied.

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