2 Samuel 14:32 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

³² O that they would make me judge over the land, that all that have business might come to me, that I might do them justice.

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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."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³² And Absalom answered Joab: I sent to thee beseeching thee to come to me, that I might send thee to the king, to say to him: Wherefore am I come from Gessur? It had been better for me to be there. I beseech thee therefore that I may see the face of the king: and if he be mindful of my iniquity, let him kill me.

2 Samuel 14:32 Cross References

Genesis 3:12

2 And Adam said: The woman, whom thou gavest me to be my companion, gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

2 Samuel 13:37

And thou shalt go in to the king, and shalt speak to him in this manner. And Joab put the words in her mouth.

2 Samuel 14:31

And Absalom answered him: Thy words seem to me good and just. But there is no man appointed by the king to hear thee. And Absalom said:

2 Samuel 3:3

Why didst thou go in to my father's concubine? And he was exceedingly angry for the words of Isboseth, and said: Am I a dog's head against Juda this day, who have shewn mercy to the house of Saul thy father, and to his brethren and friends, and have not delivered thee into the hands of David, and hast thou sought this day against me to charge me with a matter concerning a woman?

Psalm 36:2

For with thee is the fountain of life; and in thy light we shall see light.

Exodus 14:12

5 And the Lord said to Moses: Why criest thou to me? Speak to the children of Israel to go forward.

Exodus 16:3

And Moses and Aaron said to the children of Israel: In the evening you shall know that the Lord hath brought you forth out of the land of Egypt:

Exodus 17:3

Behold I will stand there before thee, upon the rock Horeb: and thou shalt strike the rock, and water shall come out of it that the people may drink. Moses did so before the ancients of Israel:

Proverbs 28:13

0 A faithful man shall be much praised: but he that maketh haste to be rich, shall not be innocent.

Jeremiah 8:12

0 The harvest is passed, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

Matthew 25:44

And when Jesus was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper,

Romans 3:19

7 Where is then thy boasting? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith.

1 Samuel 15:13

8 And the Lord sent thee on the way, and said: Go, and kill the sinners of Amalec, and thou shalt fight against them until thou hast utterly destroyed them.

1 Samuel 20:8

3 May the Lord do so and so to Jonathan and add still more. But if my father shall continue in malice against thee, I will discover it to thy ear, and will send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace, and the Lord be with thee, as he hath been with my father.