2 Samuel 14:14

New Century Version

We will all die someday. We’re like water spilled on the ground; no one can gather it back. But God doesn’t take away life. Instead, he plans ways that those who have been sent away will not have to stay away from him!

Cross References

2 Samuel 11:25

David said to the messenger, “Say this to Joab: ‘Don’t be upset about this. The sword kills everyone the same. Make a stronger attack against the city and capture it.’ Encourage Joab with these words.”

2 Samuel 14:15

My master and king, I came to say this to you because the people have made me afraid! I thought, ‘Let me talk to the king. Maybe he will do what I ask.

1 Kings 11:39

I will punish David’s children because of this, but I will not punish them forever.’ ”

Job 14:14

Will the dead live again? All my days are a struggle; I will wait until my change comes.

Job 30:23

I know you will bring me down to death, to the place where all living people must go.

Job 34:15

then everyone would die together and turn back into dust.

Job 34:19

He is not nicer to princes than other people, nor kinder to rich people than poor people, because he made them all with his own hands.

Psalm 22:14

My strength is gone, like water poured out onto the ground, and my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it has melted inside me.

Psalm 22:15

My strength has dried up like a clay pot, and my tongue sticks to the top of my mouth. You laid me in the dust of death.

Psalm 58:7

Let them disappear like water that flows away. Let them be cut short like a broken arrow.

Psalm 77:8

Is his love gone forever? Has he stopped speaking for all time?

Psalm 79:3

They have spilled blood like water all around Jerusalem. No one was left to bury the dead.

Psalm 90:10

Our lifetime is seventy years or, if we are strong, eighty years. But the years are full of hard work and pain. They pass quickly, and then we are gone.

Psalm 90:3

You turn people back into dust. You say, “Go back into dust, human beings.”

Exodus 21:13

But if a person kills someone accidentally, God allowed that to happen, so the person must go to a place I will choose.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

The living know they will die, but the dead know nothing. Dead people have no more reward, and people forget them.

Lamentations 3:31

The Lord will not reject his people forever.

Ezekiel 18:23

I do not really want the wicked to die, says the Lord God. I want them to stop their bad ways and live.

Leviticus 26:40

“ ‘But maybe the people will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors; maybe they will admit they turned against me and sinned against me,

Numbers 35:15

These six cities will be places of safety for citizens of Israel, as well as for foreigners and other people living with you. Any of these people who accidentally kills someone may run to one of these cities.

Numbers 35:25

They must protect the killer from the dead person’s relative, sending the killer back to the original city of safety, to stay there until the high priest dies (the high priest had the holy oil poured on him).

Numbers 35:28

The killer must stay in the city of safety until the high priest dies. After the high priest dies, the killer may go home.

Matthew 22:16

They sent some of their own followers and some people from the group called Herodians. They said, “Teacher, we know that you are an honest man and that you teach the truth about God’s way. You are not afraid of what other people think about you, because you pay no attention to who they are.

Acts 10:34

Peter began to speak: “I really understand now that to God every person is the same.

Romans 2:11

For God judges all people in the same way.

Deuteronomy 10:17

The Lord your God is God of all gods and Lord of all lords. He is the great God, who is strong and wonderful. He does not take sides, and he will not be talked into doing evil.

Hebrews 9:27

Just as everyone must die once and then be judged,

1 Peter 1:17

You pray to God and call him Father, and he judges each person’s work equally. So while you are here on earth, you should live with respect for God.