Absalom’s Return to Jerusalem
2 Samuel 14:16
In 11 translations
- BSB
- For the king will hear and deliver his maidservant from the hand of the man who would cut off both me and my son from God’s inheritance.’
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- 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.
- ASV
- 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.
- LSV
- for the king listens to deliver his handmaid out of the paw of the man [seeking] to destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God,
- YLT
- for the king doth hearken to deliver his handmaid out of the paw of the man [seeking] to destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God,
- DBY
- 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.Elohim
- DRC
- 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.
- GNV
- For the King wil heare, to deliuer his handmayde out of the hande of the man that woulde destroy mee, and also my sonne from the inheritance of God.
- JPS
- 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.
- LXXE
- for the king will hear. Let him rescue his handmaid out of the hand of the man that seeks to cast out me and my son from the inheritance of God.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- כִּ֚י יִשְׁמַ֣ע הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ לְהַצִּ֥יל אֶת־אֲמָת֖וֹ מִכַּ֣ף הָאִ֑ישׁ לְהַשְׁמִ֨יד אֹתִ֤י וְאֶת־בְּנִי֙ יַ֔חַד מִֽנַּחֲלַ֖ת אֱלֹהִֽים׃
- LXX-Br
- ὅτι ἀκούσει ὁ βασιλεύς· ῥυσάσθω τὴν δούλην αὐτοῦ ἐκ χειρὸς τοῦ ἀνδρὸς τοῦ ζητοῦντος ἐξᾶραί με καὶ τὸν υἱόν μου ἀπὸ κληρονομίας Θεοῦ.
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👤 God◆ Reign of David
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- 1 Samuel 26:19Now please, may my lord the king hear the words of his servant: If the LORD has stirred you up against me, then may He accept an offering. But if men have done it, may they be cursed in the presence of the LORD! For…
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