2 Samuel 14:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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 therefore seeing that I am come to speak this word unto my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.

2 Samuel 20:19

I am of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?

Psalm 72:12

For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; And the poor, that hath no helper.

Proverbs 16:10

A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: His mouth shall not transgress in judgement.

Deuteronomy 32:9

For the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

1 Samuel 26:19

Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it be the LORD that hath stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if it be the children of men, cursed be they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day that I should not cleave unto the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods.