2 Samuel 14:20 - Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ That I should come about with this form of speech, thy servant Joab, commanded this: but thou, my lord, O king, art wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to understand all things upon earth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ to fetch about this form of speech hath thy 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ In order to change the course of matters [between Absalom and his father] your servant Joab did this. But my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God–to know all things that are on the earth.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ to change the face of the matter hath thy 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.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Your servant Joab did this to change the way things look. But my master’s wisdom is like the wisdom of one of God’s own messengers—he knows everything that takes place in the land.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Thus did I turn to this figure of speech, because your servant Joab instructed it. But you, my lord the king, are wise, just as an Angel of God has wisdom, so that you understand all that is upon the earth."

2 Samuel 14:20 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 3:5

For God doth know that in what day soever you shall eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened: and you shall be as Gods, knowing good and evil.

2 Samuel 14:17

Then let thy handmaid say, that the word of the Lord the king be made as a sacrifice. For even as an angel of God, so is my lord the king, that he is neither moved with blessing nor cursing. Wherefore the Lord thy God is also with thee.

2 Samuel 18:13

Yea, and if I should have acted boldly against my own life, this could not have been hid from the king. And wouldst thou have stood by me?

2 Samuel 19:27

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.

2 Samuel 19:28

For all of my father's house were no better than worthy of death before my lord the king; and thou hast set me thy servant among the guests of thy table. What just complaint therefore have I? Or what right to cry any more to the king?

2 Samuel 5:23

And David consulted the Lord: Shall I go up against the Philistines, and wilt thou deliver them into my hands? He answered: Go not up against them, but fetch a compass behind them; and thou shalt come upon them over against the pear-trees.

Proverbs 26:28

A deceitful tongue loveth not truth: and a slippery mouth worketh ruin.

Proverbs 29:5

A man that speaketh to his friend with flattering and dissembling words, spreadeth a net for his feet.

1 Samuel 29:9

And Achis answering said to David: I know that thou art good in my sight, as an angel of God; but the princes of the Philistines have said: He shall not go up with us to the battle.