Then your handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD your God will be with you.
2 Samuel 19:27 - King James 2000 And he has slandered your servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in your eyes. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in thine eyes. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He has slandered your servant to my lord the king. But the king is as an angel of God; so do what is good in your eyes. American Standard Version (1901) And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in thine eyes. Common English Bible So Ziba has slandered your servant to my master and king, but my master and king is a messenger of God. So do whatever seems best to you. Catholic Public Domain Version Moreover, he also accused me, your servant, to you, my lord the king. But you, my lord the king, are like an Angel of God. Do whatever is pleasing to you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Moreover he hath also accused me thy servant to thee, my lord the king: but thou my lord the king, art as an angel of God. Do what pleaseth thee. |
Then your handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD your God will be with you.
To bring about this change of affairs has your servant Joab done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.
And the king said, And where is your master’s son? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he abides at Jerusalem: for he said, Today shall the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father.
Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, all that belonged unto Mephibosheth are yours. And Ziba said, I humbly beseech you that I may find grace in your sight, my lord, O king.
And there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went over Jordan before the king.
So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem: for he did eat continually at the king’s table; and was lame in both his feet.
And the king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may show the kindness of God unto him? And Ziba said unto the king, Jonathan has yet a son, who is lame on his feet.
Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him will I cut off: he that has a haughty look and a proud heart will I not endure.
He that backbites not with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor.
Take you heed everyone of his neighbor, and trust you not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders.
And Achish answered and said to David, I know that you are good in my sight, as an angel of God: notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle.