2 Samuel 14:14

New American Bible - revised edition

We must indeed die; we are then like water that is poured out on the ground and cannot be gathered up. Yet, though God does not bring back to life, he does devise means so as not to banish anyone from him.

Cross References

2 Samuel 11:25

David said to the messenger: “This is what you shall say to Joab: ‘Do not let this be a great evil in your sight, for the sword devours now here and now there. Strengthen your attack on the city and destroy it.’ Encourage him.”

2 Samuel 14:15

And now, if I have presumed to speak to the king of this matter, it is because the people have given me cause to fear. And so your servant thought: ‘Let me speak to the king. Perhaps he will grant the petition of his servant.

1 Kings 11:39

I will humble David’s line for this, but not forever.”

Job 14:14

If a man were to die, and live again, all the days of my drudgery I would wait for my relief to come.

Job 30:23

Indeed I know that you will return me to death to the house destined for everyone alive.

Job 34:15

All flesh would perish together, and mortals return to dust.

Job 34:19

Who neither favors the person of princes, nor respects the rich more than the poor? For they are all the work of his hands;

Psalm 22:14

They open their mouths against me, lions that rend and roar.

Psalm 22:15

Like water my life drains away; all my bones are disjointed. My heart has become like wax, it melts away within me.

Psalm 58:7

O God, smash the teeth in their mouths; break the fangs of these lions, Lord!

Psalm 77:8

“Will the Lord reject us forever, never again show favor?

Psalm 79:3

They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and no one is left to do the burying.

Psalm 90:10

Seventy is the sum of our years, or eighty, if we are strong; Most of them are toil and sorrow; they pass quickly, and we are gone.

Psalm 90:3

You turn humanity back into dust, saying, “Return, you children of Adam!”

Exodus 21:13

However, regarding the one who did not hunt another down, but God caused death to happen by his hand, I will set apart for you a place to which that one may flee.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know that they are to die, but the dead no longer know anything. There is no further recompense for them, because all memory of them is lost.

Lamentations 3:31

For the Lord does not reject forever;

Ezekiel 18:23

Do I find pleasure in the death of the wicked—oracle of the Lord God? Do I not rejoice when they turn from their evil way and live?

Leviticus 26:40

They will confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their ancestors in their treachery against me and in their continued hostility toward me,

Numbers 35:15

These six cities will serve as places of asylum for the Israelites, and for the resident or transient aliens among them, so that anyone who has killed a person inadvertently may flee there. Murder and Manslaughter.

Numbers 35:25

The community will deliver the homicide from the avenger of blood and the community will return the homicide to the city of asylum where the latter had fled; and the individual will stay there until the death of the high priest who has been anointed with sacred oil.

Numbers 35:28

for the homicide was required to stay in the city of asylum until the death of the high priest. Only after the death of the high priest may the homicide return to the land of the homicide’s possession.

Matthew 22:16

They sent their disciples to him, with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are a truthful man and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. And you are not concerned with anyone’s opinion, for you do not regard a person’s status.

Acts 10:34

Then Peter proceeded to speak and said, “In truth, I see that God shows no partiality.

Romans 2:11

There is no partiality with God. Judgment by the Interior Law.

Deuteronomy 10:17

For the Lord, your God, is the God of gods, the Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who has no favorites, accepts no bribes,

Hebrews 9:27

Just as it is appointed that human beings die once, and after this the judgment,

1 Peter 1:17

Now if you invoke as Father him who judges impartially according to each one’s works, conduct yourselves with reverence during the time of your sojourning,