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2 Samuel 14:17

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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.’

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.

19 So the king asked, “Is the hand of Joab behind all this?” The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything that my lord the king says. Yes, your servant Joab is the one who gave me orders; he told your maidservant exactly what to say.

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BSB
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.’”
KJV
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.
WEB
Then your servant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May the LORD, your God, be with you.’”
ASV
Then thy handmaid said, Let, I pray thee, the word of my lord the king be comfortable; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: and Jehovah thy God be with thee.
DARBY
And thy bondmaid said, Let the word of my lord the king now be comfortable; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad; and Jehovah thy God will be with thee.
BLB
And Your maidservant said, ‘Now the word of my lord the king will be comforting, for like the angel of God, so [is] my lord the king in discerning good and evil. And may YHWH your God be with you.’”
ÅB
Og så tenkte din tjenerinne: Gid min herre kongens ord måtte bli meg til trøst, for min herre kongen er som en Guds engel til å høre både på godt og ondt! Så være da Herren din Gud med deg!
OTB
Da tenkte din tjenerinne, ‘Min herre kongens ord vil bringe hvile, for min herre kongen er som Guds engel, til å skjelne mellom godt og ondt. Og må Herren din Gud være med deg.’”
B1930
Og så tenkte din tjenerinne: Gid min herre kongens ord måtte bli mig til trøst, for min herre kongen er som en Guds engel til å høre både på godt og ondt! Så være da Herren din Gud med dig!

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Cross references

  • 1 Samuel 29:9

    Achish replied, “I know that you are as pleasing in my sight as an angel of God. But the commanders of the Philistines have said, ‘He must not go into battle with us.’

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  • 2 Samuel 19:27

    and he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. Yet my lord the king is like the angel of God, so do what is good in your eyes.

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  • 2 Samuel 14:20

    Joab your servant has done this to bring about this change of affairs, but my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God, to know everything that happens in the land.”

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  • Hebrews 5:14

    But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained their senses to distinguish good from evil.

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  • 1 Kings 3:9

    Therefore give Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people and to discern between good and evil. For who is able to govern this great people of Yours?”

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  • Proverbs 29:5

    A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

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  • 1 Corinthians 2:14–15

    The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

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  • Proverbs 27:21

    A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but a man is tested by the praise accorded him.

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