2 Samuel 14:15
13 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.
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.’”
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.
Compare
- BSB
- 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.
- KJV
- Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid.
- WEB
- Now therefore, seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid. Your servant said, ‘I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.’
- ASV
- Now therefore seeing that I am come to speak this word unto my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.
- DARBY
- And now that I am come to speak of this thing to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid; and thy bondmaid said, I will now speak to the king; perhaps the king will perform the request of his handmaid.
- BLB
- And now that I have come to speak to the king my lord of this thing, because the people have made me afraid, and your maidservant said, ‘I will speak now to the king, perhaps the king will perform the request of his maidservant.
- ÅB
- Og at jeg nå er kommet for å tale dette til min herre kongen, det er fordi folket skremte meg, og din tjenerinne tenkte da: Jeg vil tale til kongen; kanskje kongen vil gjøre etter sin tjenerinnes ord;
- OTB
- Nå har jeg kommet for å tale om denne saken til min herre kongen, fordi folket har gjort meg redd. Så din tjenerinne sa, ‘La meg tale til kongen; kanskje kongen vil handle på sin tjenerinnes bønn.
- B1930
- Og at jeg nu er kommet for å tale dette til min herre kongen, det er fordi folket skremte mig, og din tjenerinne tenkte da: Jeg vil tale til kongen; kanskje kongen vil gjøre efter sin tjenerinnes ord;