2 Samuel 14:32 - Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition

³² Absalom answered, “You didn't pay any attention when I sent for you. I want you to ask my father why he told me to come back from Geshur. I was better off there. I want to see my father now! If I'm guilty, let him kill me.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³² And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent unto thee, saying, Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say, Wherefore am I come from Geshur? it had been good for me to have been there still: now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there be any iniquity in me, let him kill me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³² Absalom answered Joab, I sent to you, saying, Come here, that I may send you to the king to ask, Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still. Now therefore [Joab], let me see the king, and if there is iniquity and guilt in me, let him kill me.

American Standard Version (1901)

³² And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent unto thee, saying, Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say, Wherefore am I come from Geshur? it were better for me to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king’s face; and if there be iniquity in me, let him kill me.

Common English Bible

³² Absalom answered Joab, “Look, I sent you a message: Come here so I can send you to the king to ask, ‘Why have I returned from Geshur? I would be better off if I were still there!’ Please let me see the king’s face. If I’m guilty, then the king can kill me.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³² And Absalom responded to Joab: "I sent to you, begging that you might come to me, and that I might send you to the king, and that you might say to him: 'Why was I brought from Geshur? It would have been better for me to be there.' I beg you, therefore, that I may see the face of the king. And if he is mindful of my iniquity, let him put me to death."

2 Samuel 14:32 পৰস্পৰ সংযোগসমূহ

Proverbs 28:13

If you don't confess your sins, you will be a failure. But God will be merciful if you confess your sins and give them up.

1 Samuel 20:8

Be kind to me. After all, it was your idea to promise the Lord that we would always be loyal friends. If I've done anything wrong, kill me yourself, but don't hand me over to your father.

Exodus 14:12

While we were there, didn't we tell you to leave us alone? We'd rather be slaves in Egypt than die in this desert!”

Romans 3:19

We know that everything in the Law was written for those who are under its power. The Law says these things to stop anyone from making excuses and to let God show that the whole world is guilty.

Matthew 25:44

Then the people will ask, “Lord, when did we fail to help you when you were hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in jail?”

Jeremiah 8:12

They should be ashamed of the way they live, but they don't even blush. And so, when I punish Judah, they will end up on the ground, dead like everyone else.

Psalm 36:2

They like themselves too much to hate their own sins or even to see them.

1 Samuel 15:13

Samuel finally caught up with Saul, and Saul told him, “I hope the Lord will bless you! I have done what the Lord told me.”

Exodus 17:3

But the people were thirsty and kept on complaining, “Moses, did you bring us out of Egypt just to let us and our families and our animals die of thirst?”

Exodus 16:3

“We wish the Lord had killed us in Egypt. When we lived there, we could at least sit down and eat all the bread and meat we wanted. But you have brought us out here into this desert, where we are going to starve.”

Genesis 3:12

“It was the woman you put here with me,” the man said. “She gave me some of the fruit, and I ate it.”

2 Samuel 13:37

David was sad for a long time because Amnon was dead. Absalom had run away to Geshur, where he stayed for three years with King Talmai the son of Ammihud.

2 Samuel 14:31

Joab went to Absalom's house and demanded, “Why did your servants set my field on fire?”