2 Samuel 14:14 - New International Version (Anglicised)

¹⁴ Like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be recovered, so we must die. But that is not what God desires; rather, he devises ways so that a banished person does not remain banished from him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. And God does not take away life, but devises means so that he who is banished may not be an utter outcast from Him.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God take away life, but deviseth means, that he that is banished be not an outcast from him.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ We all have to die—we’re like water spilled out on the ground that can’t be gathered up again. But God doesn’t take life away; instead, he makes plans so those banished from him don’t stay that way.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ We are all dying, and we are all like waters that flow into the ground and do not return. God does not will to lose a soul. Instead, he renews his efforts, thinking that what has been rejected might not perish altogether.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ We all die, and like waters that return no more we fall down into the earth. Neither will God have a soul to perish, but recalleth; meaning that he that is cast off should not altogether perish.

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2 Samuel 11:25

David told the messenger, ‘Say this to Joab: “Don’t let this upset you; the sword devours one as well as another. Press the attack against the city and destroy it.” Say this to encourage Joab.’

2 Samuel 14:15

‘And now I have come to say this to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. Your servant thought, “I will speak to the king; perhaps he will grant his servant’s request.

1 Kings 11:39

I will humble David’s descendants because of this, but not for ever.” ’

Job 14:14

If someone dies, will they live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come.

Job 30:23

I know you will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.

Job 34:15

all humanity would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.

Job 34:19

who shows no partiality to princes and does not favour the rich over the poor, for they are all the work of his hands?

Psalm 22:14

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax; it has melted within me.

Psalm 22:15

My mouth is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death.

Psalm 58:7

Let them vanish like water that flows away; when they draw the bow, let their arrows fall short.

Psalm 77:8

Has his unfailing love vanished for ever? Has his promise failed for all time?

Psalm 79:3

They have poured out blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no-one to bury the dead.

Psalm 90:10

Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

Psalm 90:3

You turn people back to dust, saying, ‘Return to dust, you mortals.’

Exodus 21:13

However, if it is not done intentionally, but God lets it happen, they are to flee to a place I will designate.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even their name is forgotten.

Lamentations 3:31

For no-one is cast off by the Lord for ever.

Ezekiel 18:23

Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign Lord. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?

Leviticus 26:40

‘ “But if they will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors – their unfaithfulness and their hostility towards me,

Numbers 35:15

These six towns will be a place of refuge for Israelites and for foreigners residing among them, so that anyone who has killed another accidentally can flee there.

Numbers 35:25

The assembly must protect the one accused of murder from the avenger of blood and send the accused back to the city of refuge to which they fled. The accused must stay there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with holy oil.

Numbers 35:28

The accused must stay in the city of refuge until the death of the high priest; only after the death of the high priest may they return to their own property.

Matthew 22:16

They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. ‘Teacher,’ they said, ‘we know that you are a man of integrity and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are.

Acts 10:34

Then Peter began to speak: ‘I now realise how true it is that God does not show favouritism

Romans 2:11

For God does not show favouritism.

Deuteronomy 10:17

For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes.

Hebrews 9:27

Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment,

1 Peter 1:17

Since you call on a Father who judges each person’s work impartially, live out your time as foreigners here in reverent fear.