2 Samuel 14:17

World English Bible (2000)

Then your handmaid said, 'Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.'"

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 19:27 : 27 He has slandered your servant to my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God. Do therefore what is good in your eyes.
  • 1 Sam 29:9 : 9 Achish answered David, "I know that you are good in my sight, as an angel of God. Notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, 'He shall not go up with us to the battle.'
  • 2 Sam 14:20 : 20 to change the face of the matter has your servant Joab done this thing. My lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth."
  • 1 Kgs 3:9 : 9 Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this your great people?"
  • 1 Kgs 3:28 : 28 All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.
  • Job 6:30 : 30 Is there injustice on my tongue? Can't my taste discern mischievous things?
  • Prov 27:21 : 21 The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but man is refined by his praise.
  • Prov 29:5 : 5 A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
  • 1 Cor 2:14-15 : 14 Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.
  • Heb 5:14 : 14 But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

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  • 2 Sam 14:15-16
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    85%

    15 Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and your handmaid said, 'I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.'

    16 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.

  • 2 Sam 14:10-13
    4 verses
    81%

    10 The king said, "Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall not touch you any more."

    11 Then she said, "Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son." He said, "As Yahweh lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth."

    12 Then the woman said, "Please let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king." He said, "Say on."

    13 The woman said, "Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished one.

  • 2 Sam 14:18-20
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    18 Then the king answered the woman, "Please don't hide anything from me that I ask you." The woman said, "Let my lord the king now speak."

    19 The king said, "Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?" The woman answered, "As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab, he urged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid;

    20 to change the face of the matter has your servant Joab done this thing. My lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth."

  • 2 Sam 19:27
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    27 He has slandered your servant to my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God. Do therefore what is good in your eyes.

  • 1 Sam 25:30-32
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    76%

    30 It shall come to pass, when Yahweh has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and shall have appointed you prince over Israel,

    31 that this shall be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. When Yahweh has dealt well with my lord, then remember your handmaid."

    32 David said to Abigail, "Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me!

  • 1 Sam 25:26-28
    3 verses
    76%

    26 Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, since Yahweh has withheld you from blood guiltiness, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

    27 Now this present which your servant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.

    28 Please forgive the trespass of your handmaid. For Yahweh will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights the battles of Yahweh; and evil shall not be found in you all your days.

  • Ruth 2:13
    75%

    13 Then she said, "Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to your handmaid, though I am not as one of your handmaidens."

  • 1 Chr 17:17-19
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    74%

    17 This was a small thing in your eyes, God; but you have spoken of your servant's house for a great while to come, and have respected me according to the estate of a man of high degree, Yahweh God.

    18 What can David say yet more to you concerning the honor which is done to your servant? For you know your servant.

    19 Yahweh, for your servant's sake, and according to your own heart, you have worked all this greatness, to make known all these great things.

  • 2 Sam 14:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7 Behold, the whole family has risen against your handmaid, and they say, 'Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.' Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth."

    8 The king said to the woman, "Go to your house, and I will give a command concerning you."

  • 1 Sam 1:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17 Then Eli answered, "Go in peace; and may the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him."

    18 She said, "Let your handmaid find favor in your sight." So the woman went her way, and ate; and her facial expression wasn't sad any more.

  • 2 Kgs 4:13
    73%

    13 He said to him, "Say now to her, 'Behold, you have cared for us with all this care. What is to be done for you? Would you like to be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the army?'" She answered, "I dwell among my own people."

  • 1 Sam 24:15
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    15 May Yahweh therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand."

  • 2 Sam 7:20-21
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    72%

    20 What more can David say to you? For you know your servant, Lord Yahweh.

    21 For your word's sake, and according to your own heart, you have worked all this greatness, to make your servant know it.

  • 1 Chr 17:26-27
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    72%

    26 Now, Yahweh, you are God, and have promised this good thing to your servant.

    27 Now it has pleased you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Yahweh, have blessed, and it is blessed forever."

  • 1 Sam 20:7
    72%

    7 If he says, 'It is well;' your servant shall have peace: but if he be angry, then know that evil is determined by him.

  • 1 Chr 17:23
    72%

    23 Now, Yahweh, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, be established forever, and do as you have spoken.

  • 1 Kgs 1:17
    72%

    17 She said to him, "My lord, you swore by Yahweh your God to your handmaid, 'Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.'

  • 2 Sam 19:7
    72%

    7 Now therefore arise, go out, and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don't go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now."

  • 1 Sam 28:22
    71%

    22 Now therefore, please listen also to the voice of your handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before you; and eat, that you may have strength, when you go on your way."

  • Gen 24:40
    71%

    40 He said to me, 'Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son of my relatives, and of my father's house.

  • 1 Sam 22:14
    71%

    14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, "Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and is taken into your council, and is honorable in your house?

  • Judg 6:12
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    12 The angel of Yahweh appeared to him, and said to him, "Yahweh is with you, you mighty man of valor!"

  • 2 Sam 7:25
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    25 Now, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do as you have spoken.

  • 1 Sam 1:26
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    26 She said, "Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to Yahweh.

  • 2 Sam 14:5
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    5 The king said to her, "What ails you?" She answered, "Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

  • 1 Chr 22:11
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    11 Now, my son, may Yahweh be with you and prosper you, and build the house of Yahweh your God, as he has spoken concerning you.

  • 1 Sam 23:11
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    11 Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? Will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? Yahweh, the God of Israel, I beg you, tell your servant." Yahweh said, "He will come down."

  • 1 Kgs 1:20
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    20 You, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, that you should tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.

  • 2 Chr 6:17
    71%

    17 Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David.

  • 1 Sam 24:19
    71%

    19 For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away unharmed? Therefore may Yahweh reward you good for that which you have done to me this day.

  • 1 Kgs 1:37
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    37 As Yahweh has been with my lord the king, even so may he be with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David."

  • 1 Kgs 10:9
    71%

    9 Blessed is Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel. Because Yahweh loved Israel forever, therefore made he you king, to do justice and righteousness."

  • 1 Sam 18:14
    71%

    14 David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and Yahweh was with him.

  • 1 Sam 20:13
    70%

    13 Yahweh do so to Jonathan, and more also, should it please my father to do you evil, if I don't disclose it to you, and send you away, that you may go in peace: and Yahweh be with you, as he has been with my father.