Now therefore, seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid. Your servant said, ‘I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.’
2 Samuel 14:16 - Y'all Version Bible For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For the king will hear to deliver his handmaid from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together from [Israel] the inheritance of God. American Standard Version (1901) For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God. Common English Bible because the king will agree to deliver his servant from the power of anyone who would destroy both me and my son from the inheritance God gave. Catholic Public Domain Version And the king listened, and he freed his handmaid from the hand of all who were willing to take away me and my son together, from the inheritance of God. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the king hath hearkened to me to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of all that would destroy me and my son together, out of the inheritance of God. |
Now therefore, seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid. Your servant said, ‘I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.’
I am among those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up YHWH’s inheritance?”
For he will deliver the needy who cry out; the poor, who has no helper.
Divine judgments are on the lips of the king. He mouth should not betray justice.
For YHWH’s portion is ʜɪꜱ people. Jacob is the lot of ʜɪꜱ inheritance.
Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that YHWH has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before YHWH; for they have driven me out today that I shouldn’t cling to YHWH’s inheritance, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods!’