2 Samuel 14:14

American Standard Version (1901)

For we must needs die, and are as water split 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.

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  • Num 35:15 : 15 For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the sojourner among them, shall these six cities be for refuge; that every one that killeth any person unwittingly may flee thither.
  • Num 35:25 : 25 and the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.
  • Num 35:28 : 28 because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the manslayer shall return into the land of his possession.
  • Heb 9:27 : 27 And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this [cometh] judgment;
  • Job 30:23 : 23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.
  • Job 34:15 : 15 All flesh shall perish together, And man shall turn again unto dust.
  • Job 34:19 : 19 That respecteth not the persons of princes, Nor regardeth the rich more than the poor; For they all are the work of his hands.
  • Ps 22:14 : 14 I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint: My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.
  • Ps 58:7 : 7 Let them melt away as water that runneth apace: When he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.
  • Ps 79:3 : 3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; And there was none to bury them.
  • Ps 90:3 : 3 Thou turnest man to destruction, And sayest, Return, ye children of men.
  • Ps 90:10 : 10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten, Or even by reason of strength fourscore years; Yet is their pride but labor and sorrow; For it is soon gone, and we fly away.
  • Eccl 3:19-20 : 19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; and man hath no preeminence above the beasts: for all is vanity. 20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
  • Eccl 9:5 : 5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
  • Isa 50:1-2 : 1 Thus saith Jehovah, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, wherewith I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were ye sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away. 2 Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.
  • Matt 22:16 : 16 And they send to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, and carest not for any one: for thou regardest not the person of men.
  • Acts 10:34 : 34 And Peter opened his mouth and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
  • Rom 2:11 : 11 for there is no respect of persons with God.
  • 1 Pet 1:17 : 17 And if ye call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to each man's work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear:
  • Exod 21:13 : 13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver [him] into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.
  • Lev 26:40 : 40 And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary unto me,
  • Deut 10:17 : 17 For Jehovah your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the terrible, who regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward.
  • 2 Sam 11:25 : 25 Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another; make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.
  • Job 14:7-9 : 7 For there is hope of a tree, If it be cut down, that it will sprout again, And that the tender branch thereof will not cease. 8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, And the stock thereof die in the ground; 9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, And put forth boughs like a plant. 10 But man dieth, and is laid low: Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? 11 [ As] the waters fail from the sea, And the river wasteth and drieth up; 12 So man lieth down and riseth not: Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep.
  • Job 14:14 : 14 If a man die, shall he live [again] ? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till my release should come.

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