2 Samuel 14:14

Bible in Basic English 1965

For death comes to us all, and we are like water drained out on the earth, which it is not possible to take up again; and God will not take away the life of the man whose purpose is that he who has been sent away may not be completely cut off from him.

Cross References

2 Samuel 11:25

Then David said to the man, Go and say to Joab, Do not let this be a grief to you; for one man may come to his death by the sword like another: put up an even stronger fight against the town, and take it: and do you put heart into him.

2 Samuel 14:15

And now it is my fear of the people which has made me come to say these words to my lord the king: and your servant said, I will put my cause before the king, and it may be that he will give effect to my request.

1 Kings 11:39

So that I may send trouble for this on the seed of David, but not for ever.

Job 14:14

If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.

Job 30:23

For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.

Job 34:15

All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.

Job 34:19

Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands.

Psalm 22:14

I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.

Psalm 22:15

My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.

Psalm 58:7

Let them be turned to liquid like the ever-flowing waters; let them be cut off like the grass by the way.

Psalm 77:8

Is his mercy quite gone for ever? has his word come to nothing?

Psalm 79:3

Their blood has been flowing like water round about Jerusalem; there was no one to put them in their last resting-place.

Psalm 90:10

The measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone.

Psalm 90:3

You send man back to his dust; and say, Go back, you children of men.

Exodus 21:13

But if he had no evil purpose against him, and God gave him into his hand, I will give you a place to which he may go in flight.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.

Lamentations 3:31

For the Lord does not give a man up for ever.

Ezekiel 18:23

Have I any pleasure in the death of the evil-doer? says the Lord: am I not pleased if he is turned from his way so that he may have life?

Leviticus 26:40

And they will have grief for their sins and for the sins of their fathers, when their hearts were untrue to me, and they went against me;

Numbers 35:15

For the children of Israel and for the man from another country who is living among them, these six towns are to be safe places, where anyone causing the death of another through error may go in flight.

Numbers 35:25

And let the people keep the man responsible for the death safe from the hands of him who has the right of punishment for blood, and send him back to his safe town where he had gone in flight: there let him be till the death of the high priest who was marked with the holy oil.

Numbers 35:28

Because he had been ordered to keep inside the safe town till the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the taker of life may come back to the place of his heritage.

Matthew 22:16

And they sent to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Master, we see that you are true, and that you are teaching the true way of God, and have no fear of anyone, because you have no respect for a man's position.

Acts 10:34

Then Peter said, Truly, I see clearly that God is no respecter of persons:

Romans 2:11

For one man is not different from another before God.

Deuteronomy 10:17

For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, strong in power and greatly to be feared, who has no respect for any man's position and takes no rewards:

Hebrews 9:27

And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;

1 Peter 1:17

And if you give the name of Father to him who, judging every man by his acts, has no respect for a man's position, then go in fear while you are on this earth: