2 Samuel 14:14

New English Translation

Certainly we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground that cannot be gathered up again. But God does not take away life; instead he devises ways for the banished to be restored.

Cross References

2 Samuel 11:25

David said to the messenger, “Tell Joab, ‘Don’t let this thing upset you. There is no way to anticipate whom the sword will cut down. Press the battle against the city and conquer it.’ Encourage him with these words.”

2 Samuel 14:15

I have now come to speak with my lord the king about this matter, because the people have made me fearful. But your servant said, ‘I will speak to the king! Perhaps the king will do what his female servant asks.

1 Kings 11:39

I will humiliate David’s descendants because of this, but not forever.”

Job 14:14

If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.

Job 30:23

I know that you are bringing me to death, to the meeting place for all the living.

Job 34:15

all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.

Job 34:19

who shows no partiality to princes, and does not take note of the rich more than the poor, because all of them are the work of his hands?

Psalm 22:14

My strength drains away like water; all my bones are dislocated; my heart is like wax; it melts away inside me.

Psalm 22:15

The roof of my mouth is as dry as a piece of pottery; my tongue sticks to my gums. You set me in the dust of death.

Psalm 58:7

Let them disappear like water that flows away! Let them wither like grass!

Psalm 77:8

Has his loyal love disappeared forever? Has his promise failed forever?

Psalm 79:3

They have made their blood flow like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury them.

Psalm 90:10

The days of our lives add up to seventy years, or eighty, if one is especially strong. But even one’s best years are marred by trouble and oppression. Yes, they pass quickly and we fly away.

Psalm 90:3

You make mankind return to the dust, and say, “Return, O people!”

Exodus 21:13

But if he does not do it with premeditation, but it happens by accident, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything; they have no further reward – and even the memory of them disappears.

Lamentations 3:31

For the Lord will not reject us forever.

Ezekiel 18:23

Do I actually delight in the death of the wicked, declares the sovereign Lord? Do I not prefer that he turn from his wicked conduct and live?

Leviticus 26:40

However, when they confess their iniquity and their ancestors’ iniquity which they committed by trespassing against me, by which they also walked in hostility against me

Numbers 35:15

These six towns will be places of refuge for the Israelites, and for the foreigner, and for the settler among them, so that anyone who kills any person accidentally may flee there.

Numbers 35:25

The community must deliver the slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the community must restore him to the town of refuge to which he fled, and he must live there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the consecrated oil.

Numbers 35:28

because the slayer should have stayed in his town of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest, the slayer may return to the land of his possessions.

Matthew 22:16

They sent to him their disciples along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are truthful, and teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You do not court anyone’s favor because you show no partiality.

Acts 10:34

Then Peter started speaking: “I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism in dealing with people,

Romans 2:11

For there is no partiality with God.

Deuteronomy 10:17

For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God who is unbiased and takes no bribe,

Hebrews 9:27

And just as people are appointed to die once, and then to face judgment,

1 Peter 1:17

And if you address as Father the one who impartially judges according to each one’s work, live out the time of your temporary residence here in reverence.