2 Samuel 14:16 - New International Version (Anglicised)

¹⁶ Perhaps the king will agree to deliver his servant from the hand of the man who is trying to cut off both me and my son from God’s inheritance.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ 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

¹⁶ 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)

¹⁶ 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

¹⁶ 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

¹⁶ 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

¹⁶ 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.

2 Samuel 14:16 Tagairtí Cros

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.

2 Samuel 20:19

We are the peaceful and faithful in Israel. You are trying to destroy a city that is a mother in Israel. Why do you want to swallow up the Lord’s inheritance?’

Psalm 72:12

For he will deliver the needy who cry out, the afflicted who have no-one to help.

Proverbs 16:10

The lips of a king speak as an oracle, and his mouth does not betray justice.

Deuteronomy 32:9

For the Lord’s portion is his people, Jacob his allotted inheritance.

1 Samuel 26:19

Now let my lord the king listen to his servant’s words. If the Lord has incited you against me, then may he accept an offering. If, however, people have done it, may they be cursed before the Lord! They have driven me today from my share in the Lord’s inheritance and have said, “Go, serve other gods.”