2 Samuel 14:16
14 For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
15 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.
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.
17 Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD thy God will be with thee.
18 Then the king answered and said unto the woman, Hide not from me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall ask thee. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.
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
- 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.
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Cross references
1 Samuel 26:19
Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if they be the children of men, cursed be they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods.
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