2 Samuel 14:16
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.
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.
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
- 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.’
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- 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.
- ASV
- 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.
- DARBY
- 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.
- BLB
- For the king will hear and deliver his maidservant from the hand of the man destroying me and my son together from the inheritance of God.’
- ÅB
- kongen vil nok høre på meg og fri sin tjenerinne fra den manns hånd som vil utrydde både meg og min sønn av Guds arv.
- OTB
- For kongen vil høre og befri sin tjenerinne fra hånden til mannen som søker å kutte meg og min sønn bort fra Guds arv.’
- B1930
- kongen vil nok høre på mig og fri sin tjenerinne fra den manns hånd som vil utrydde både mig og min sønn av Guds arv.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Samuel 26:19
Now please, may my lord the king hear the words of his servant: If the LORD has stirred you up against me, then may He accept an offering. But if men have done it, may they be cursed in the presence of the LORD! For today they have driven me away from sharing in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’
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