2 Samuel 14:16 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁶ For the king will hear, and deliver his servant from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together from the heritage of God.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ For the king will hear to deliver his handmaid from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together from [Israel] the inheritance of God.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ 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.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ because the king will agree to deliver his servant from the power of anyone who would destroy both me and my son from the inheritance God gave.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And the king listened, and he freed his handmaid from the hand of all who were willing to take away me and my son together, from the inheritance of God.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ And the king hath hearkened to me to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of all that would destroy me and my son together, out of the inheritance of God.

2 Samuel 14:16 Cross References

2 Samuel 14:15

Now I have come to say this to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid; and your handmaid thought, ‘I will speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.

2 Samuel 20:19

I am one of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel; you seek to destroy a city which is a mother in Israel; why will you swallow up the heritage of the Lord?”

Psalm 72:12

For he delivers the needy when he calls, the poor and him who has no helper.

Proverbs 16:10

Inspired decisions are on the lips of a king; his mouth does not sin in judgment.

Deuteronomy 32:9

For the Lord's portion is his people, Jacob his allotted heritage.

1 Samuel 26:19

Now therefore let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is the Lord who has stirred you up against me, may he accept an offering; but if it is men, may they be cursed before the Lord, for they have driven me out this day that I should have no share in the heritage of the Lord, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’