2 Samuel 14:14 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁴ 9 And the king said: Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? The woman answered, and said: By the health of thy soul, my lord, O king, it is neither on the left hand, nor on the right, in all these things which my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he commanded me, and he put all these words into the mouth of thy handmaid.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. And God does not take away life, but devises means so that he who is banished may not be an utter outcast from Him.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God take away life, but deviseth means, that he that is banished be not an outcast from him.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ We all have to die—we’re like water spilled out on the ground that can’t be gathered up again. But God doesn’t take life away; instead, he makes plans so those banished from him don’t stay that way.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ We are all dying, and we are all like waters that flow into the ground and do not return. God does not will to lose a soul. Instead, he renews his efforts, thinking that what has been rejected might not perish altogether.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ We all die, and like waters that return no more we fall down into the earth. Neither will God have a soul to perish, but recalleth; meaning that he that is cast off should not altogether perish.

2 Samuel 14:14 Cross References

2 Samuel 11:25

But the poor man had nothing at all but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up, and which had grown up in his house together with his children, eating of his bread, and drinking of his cup, and sleeping in his bosom: and it was unto him as a daughter.

2 Samuel 14:15

0 That I should come about with this form of speech, thy servant Joab, commanded this: but thou, my lord, O king, art wise, according to the wisdom of ail angel of God, to understand all things upon earth.

1 Kings 11:39

And Roboam went to Sichem: for thither were all Israel come together to make him king.

Job 14:14

9 Waters wear away the stones, and with inundation the ground by little and little is washed away: so in like manner thou shalt destroy man.

Job 30:23

8 I went mourning without indignation; I rose up, and cried in the crowd.

Job 34:15

1 For his eyes are upon the ways of men, and he considereth all their steps.

Job 34:19

5 For he knoweth their works : and therefore he shall bring night on them, and they shall be destroyed.

Psalm 22:14

1 Save me from the lion's mouth; and my lowness from the horns of the unicorns.

Psalm 22:15

2 I will declare thy name to my brethren: in the midst of the church will I praise thee.

Psalm 58:7

For behold they have caught my soul: the mighty have rushed in upon me:

Psalm 77:8

5 with thy arm thou hast redeemed thy people the children of Jacob and of Joseph.

Psalm 79:3

0 Lest they should say among the Gentiles: Where is their God? And let him be made known among the nations before our eyes, By the revenging the blood of thy servants, which hath been shed:

Psalm 90:10

7 And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and direct thou the works of our hands over us; yea, the work of our hands do thou direct.

Psalm 90:3

0 the days of our years in them are threescore and ten years. But if in the strong they be fourscore years: and what is more of them is labour and sorrow. For mildness is come upon us: and we shall be corrected.

Exodus 21:13

6 He that shall steal a man, and sell him, being convicted of guilt, shall be put to death.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

2 Man knoweth not his own end: but as fishes are taken with the hook, and as birds are caught with the snare, so men are taken in the evil time, when it shall suddenly come upon them.

Lamentations 3:31

9 Mem. Why hath a living man murmured, man suffering for his sins?

Ezekiel 18:23

1 Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which you have transgressed, and make to yourselves a new heart, and a new spirit: and why will you die, O house of Israel?

Leviticus 26:40

5 And I will remember my former covenant, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, in the sight of the Gentiles, to be their God. I am the Lord.

Numbers 35:15

0 If through hatred any one push a man, or fling any thing- at him with ill design:

Numbers 35:25

0 The murderer shall be punished by witnesses: none shall be condemned upon the evidence of one man.

Numbers 35:28

3 Defile not the land of your habitation, which is stained with the blood of the innocent: neither can it otherwise be expiated, but by his blood that hath shed the blood of another.

Matthew 22:16

4 Saying: Master, Moses said: If a man die having no son, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up issue to his brother.

Acts 10:34

2 And he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that it is he who was appointed by God, to be judge of the living and of the dead.

Romans 2:11

9 Art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness,

Deuteronomy 10:17

2 In seventy souls thy fathers went down into Egypt: and behold now the Lord thy God hath multiplied thee as the stars of heaven.

Hebrews 9:27

In saying before, Sacrifices, and oblations, and holocausts for sin thou wouldest not, neither are they pleasing to thee, which are offered according to the law.

1 Peter 1:17

Wherefore laying away all malice, and all guile, and dissimulations, and envies, and all detractions,