2 Samuel 14:15

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

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.

2 Samuel 14:16

For the king must surely listen and rescue his servant from the grasp of one who would destroy both me and my son from the heritage of God.’

Job 9:23

When the scourge slays suddenly, he scoffs at the despair of the innocent.