2 Samuel 24:14

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And David said to Gad: I am in a great strait: but it is better that I should fall into the hands of the Lord (for his mercies are many) than into the hands of men.

Cross References

Psalm 51:1

Unto the end, understanding for David,

1 Chronicles 21:13

And David said to Gad: I am on every side in a great strait; but it is better for me to fall into the hands of the Lord, for his mercies are many, than into the hands of men.

Jonah 4:2

And he prayed to the Lord, and said: I beseech thee, O Lord, is not this what I said, when I was yet in my own country? therefore I went before to flee into Tharsis: for I know that thou art a gracious and merciful God, patient, and of much compassion, and easy to forgive evil.

Psalm 145:9

The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless and the widow: and the ways of sinners he will destroy.

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked forsake his way and the unjust man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord; and he will have mercy on him: and to our God, for he is bountiful to forgive.

Isaiah 47:6

I was angry with my people, I have polluted my inheritance and have given them into thy hand. Thou hast shewn no mercy to them: upon the ancient thou hast laid thy yoke exceeding heavy.

Proverbs 12:10

The just regardeth the lives of his beasts: but the bowels of the wicked are cruel.

Psalm 86:5

Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the Highest himself hath founded her.

2 Kings 6:15

And the servant of the man of God rising early went out, and saw an army round about the city, and horses and chariots. And he told him, saying: Alas, alas, alas, my lord, what shall we do?

1 Samuel 13:6

And when the men of Israel saw that they were straitened (for the people were distressed), they hid themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in dens, and in pits.

Philippians 1:23

But I am straitened between two: having a desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ, a thing by far the better.

John 12:27

Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But for this cause I came unto this hour.

Zechariah 1:15

And I am angry with a great anger with the wealthy nations: for I was angry a little, but they helped forward the evil.

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like to thee, who takest away iniquity, and passest by the sin of the remnant of thy inheritance? he will send his fury in no more, because he delighteth in mercy.

2 Samuel 9:8

He bowed down to him, and said: Who am I thy servant, that thou shouldst look upon such a dead dog as I am?

Jeremiah 39:17

And I will deliver thee in that day, saith the Lord: and thou shalt not be given into the hands of the men whom thou fearest.

Lamentations 3:22

Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed.

Micah 7:19

He will turn again, and have mercy on us: he will put away our iniquities: and he will cast all our sins into the bottom of the sea.