2 Samuel 14:17

The Scriptures 2009

“Then your female servant said, ‘Please let the word of my master the sovereign be comforting, for my master the sovereign is as the messenger of Elohim, in discerning the good and the evil. And יהוה your Elohim is with you.’ ”

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:18

And the sovereign answered and said to the woman, “Please do not hide from me the matter that I am asking you.” And the woman said, “Please, let my master the sovereign speak.”

2 Samuel 14:20

“Your servant Yo’aḇ has done this to change the appearance of the matter. But my master is wise, according to the wisdom of a messenger of Elohim, to know all that is in the earth.”

2 Samuel 19:27

“And he spoke slander against your servant to my master the sovereign, but my master the sovereign is as a messenger of Elohim. Therefore do what is good in your eyes.

2 Samuel 19:28

“For all of my father’s house were but dead men before my master the sovereign. Yet you set your servant among those who eat at your own table. Therefore what right have I still to cry out any more to the sovereign?”

1 Kings 3:28

And all Yisra’ĕl heard of the right-ruling which the sovereign had rendered. And they feared the sovereign, for they saw that the wisdom of Elohim was in him to do right-ruling.

1 Kings 3:9

“Shall You then give to Your servant an understanding heart to rule Your people, to discern between good and evil? For who is able to rule this great people of Yours?”

Job 6:30

Is there unrighteousness on my tongue? Does my taste not discern what is perverse?

Proverbs 27:21

A refining pot is for silver and a furnace for gold, So a man is tried by his praise.

Proverbs 29:5

A man who flatters his neighbour Spreads a net for his own feet.

Hebrews 5:14

But solid food is for the mature whose senses have been trained by practice to discern both good and evil.

Joshua 1:17

“According to all that we obeyed Mosheh, so we obey you. Only, let יהוה your Elohim be with you, as He was with Mosheh.

1 Samuel 29:9

But Aḵish answered and said to Dawiḏ, “I know that you are as good in my eyes as a messenger of Elohim, but the princes of the Philistines have said, ‘Let him not go up with us to the battle.’