2 Samuel 14:14 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁴ “For we shall certainly die and become like water spilled on the ground, which is not gathered up again. Yet Elohim does not take away a life, but shall devise ways, so that His outcast ones are not cast out from Him.

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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

And Dawiḏ said to the messenger, “Say to Yo’aḇ, ‘Do not let this matter be evil in your eyes, for the sword devours one as well as another. Strengthen your attack against the city, and overthrow it.’ And strengthen him.”

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,

1 Kings 11:39

And because of this I humble the seed of Dawiḏ, but not forever.’ ”

Job 14:14

If a man dies, would he live again? All the days of my struggle I wait, till my change comes.

Job 30:23

For I have known that You bring me to death, and to the house of appointment for all living.

Job 34:15

all flesh would expire together and man return to dust.

Job 34:19

who is not partial to princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor? For they are all the work of His hands.

Psalm 22:14

I have been poured out like water, And all My bones have been spread apart; My heart has become like wax; It has melted in the midst of My inward parts.

Psalm 22:15

My strength is dried like a potsherd, And My tongue is cleaving to My jaws; And to the dust of death You are appointing Me.

Psalm 58:7

Let them melt, let them vanish as water; Let Him aim His arrows that they be cut down;

Psalm 77:8

Has His loving-commitment ceased forever, Has the promise failed for all generations?

Psalm 79:3

They have poured out their blood Like water all around Yerushalayim, With no one to bury them.

Psalm 90:10

The days of our lives are seventy years; Or if due to strength, eighty years, Yet the best of them is but toil and exertion; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Psalm 90:3

You turn man back to dust, And say, “Return, O children of men.”

Exodus 21:13

“But if he did not lie in wait, but Elohim delivered him into his hand, then I shall appoint for you a place where he is to flee.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know naught, nor do they have any more reward, for their remembrance is forgotten.

Lamentations 3:31

For יהוה does not cast off forever.

Ezekiel 18:23

“Have I any pleasure in the death of the wrong?” declares the Master יהוה. “Is it not that he should turn from his ways, and live?

Leviticus 26:40

‘But if they confess their crookedness and the crookedness of their fathers, with their trespass in which they trespassed against Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me,

Numbers 35:15

These six cities are for refuge for the children of Yisra’ĕl, and for the sojourner, and for the settler in their midst, for anyone who mistakenly strikes someone to flee there.

Numbers 35:25

And the congregation shall rescue the man-slayer from the hand of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall return him to the city of refuge where he had fled, and he shall remain there until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the set-apart oil.

Numbers 35:28

because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest the man-slayer is to return to the land of his possession.

Matthew 22:16

And they sent to Him their taught ones with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that You are true, and teach the way of Elohim in truth, and it does not concern You about anyone, for You are not partial to any man.

Acts 10:34

And opening his mouth, Kĕpha said, “Truly I see that Elohim shows no partiality,

Romans 2:11

For there is no partiality with Elohim.

Deuteronomy 10:17

“For יהוה your Elohim is Elohim of mighty ones and Master of masters, the great Ěl, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality nor takes a bribe.

Hebrews 9:27

And as it awaits men to die once, and after this the judgment,

1 Peter 1:17

And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one’s work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear,