2 Samuel 14:20 - Modern English Version

²⁰ In order to change this situation, your servant Joab did this thing, but my lord is wise, as with the wisdom of the angel of God, so as to discern everything happening in the land.”

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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 knows that on the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

2 Samuel 14:17

“So, your servant thought, ‘May the word of my lord the king provide rest. For like the angel of God, my lord the king discerns good from evil. May the Lord your God be with you.’ ”

2 Samuel 18:13

Otherwise, I would have worked falsehood against my own life. For nothing is hidden from the king, and you yourself would have set yourself against me.”

2 Samuel 19:27

But he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. Still my lord the king is as the angel of God, so do what seems best to you.

2 Samuel 19:28

For all my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king. Yet you set your servant among those who eat at your table. What right do I have to cry out any more to the king?”

2 Samuel 5:23

When David inquired of the Lord, He said, “You shall not go up. Circle around behind them and come against them opposite the trees.

Proverbs 26:28

A lying tongue hates those that are crushed by it, and a flattering mouth works ruin.

Proverbs 29:5

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

1 Samuel 29:9

Achish replied to David, “I know that you are pleasing in my sight like an angel of God. However the lords of the Philistines have said, ‘He shall not go up with us in battle.’