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2 Samuel 14:13

Conflict and reconciliation

11 “Please,” she replied, “may the king invoke the LORD your God to prevent the avenger of blood from increasing the devastation, so that my son may not be destroyed!” “As surely as the LORD lives,” he vowed, “not a hair of your son’s head will fall to the ground.”

12 Then the woman said, “Please, may your servant speak a word to my lord the king?” “Speak,” he replied.

The woman asked, “Why have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself, since he has not brought back his own banished son?

14 For surely we will 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.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
The woman asked, “Why have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself, since he has not brought back his own banished son?
KJV
And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished.
WEB
The woman said, “Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished one.
ASV
And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou devised such a thing against the people of God? for in speaking this word the king is as one that is guilty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished one.
DARBY
And the woman said, Why then hast thou thought such a thing against God's people? and the king in saying this thing, is as one guilty, in that the king does not bring back his banished one.
BLB
And the woman said, “And why have you schemed such as this against the people of God? For the king speaks this thing as one who is guilty, [in that] the king does not bring home again his banished one.
ÅB
Så sa kvinnen: Hvorfor tenker du da på slikt mot Guds folk? Etter det ord kongen har talt, er det som han selv var skyldig, når kongen ikke lar den han har støtt fra seg, komme tilbake.
OTB
Så sa kvinnen, “Hvorfor har du da planlagt en slik ting mot Guds folk? For ved å tale dette ordet, er kongen som en som er skyldig, i det at kongen ikke bringer tilbake sin forviste.
B1930
Så sa kvinnen: Hvorfor tenker du da på slikt mot Guds folk? Efter det ord kongen har talt, er det som han selv var skyldig, når kongen ikke lar den han har støtt fra sig, komme tilbake.

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Cross references

  • 2 Samuel 13:37–38

    Now Absalom fled and went to Talmai son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. But David mourned for his son every day.

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  • 2 Samuel 12:7

    Then Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.

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  • 1 Kings 20:40–42

    But while your servant was busy here and there, the man disappeared.” And the king of Israel said to him, “So shall your judgment be; you have pronounced it on yourself.”

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  • Judges 20:2

    The leaders of all the people and all the tribes of Israel presented themselves in the assembly of God’s people: 400,000 men on foot, armed with swords.

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  • 2 Samuel 7:8

    Now then, you are to tell My servant David that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be the ruler over My people Israel.

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  • Luke 7:42–44

    When they were unable to repay him, he forgave both of them. Which one, then, will love him more?”

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