2 Samuel 14:16 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁶ for the sovereign has listened to deliver his female servant from the hand of the man seeking to destroy me and my son together from the inheritance of Elohim.’

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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.

2 Samuel 14:16 Cross References

2 Samuel 14:15

“And now I have come to speak this word to my master the sovereign because the people have made me afraid. And your female servant said, ‘Please let me speak to the sovereign, it could be that the sovereign does what his female servant asks,

2 Samuel 20:19

“I am of the peaceable and trustworthy ones in Yisra’ĕ

Psalm 72:12

For He delivers the needy when he cries, And the poor, who has no helper.

Proverbs 16:10

An oath is on the lips of the sovereign, In right-ruling his mouth trespasses not.

Deuteronomy 32:9

“For the portion of יהוה  is His people, Yaʽ

1 Samuel 26:19

“And now, please, let my master the sovereign hear the words of his servant: If יהוה  has moved you against me, let Him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, then they are cursed before יהוה, for they have driven me out today that I should not join myself to the inheritance of יהוה, saying, ‘Go, serve other mighty ones.’