2 Samuel 14:16

Webster's Bible (1833)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 26:19 : 19 Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it be Yahweh that has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering: but if it be the children of men, cursed be they before Yahweh: for they have driven me out this day that I shouldn't cling to Yahweh's inheritance, saying, Go, serve other gods.

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  • 2 Sam 14:15
    89%

    15Now 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.

  • 2 Sam 14:17-20
    4 verses
    85%

    17Then your handmaid said, Please let the word of my lord the king be comfortable; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: and Yahweh your God be with you.

    18Then the king answered the woman, Please don't hide anything from me that I shall ask you. The woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.

    19The king said, Is the hand of Joab with you in all this? The woman answered, As your soul lives, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid;

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

  • 2 Sam 14:3-13
    11 verses
    82%

    3and go in to the king, and speak on this manner to him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.

    4When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.

    5The king said to her, What ails you? She answered, Of a truth I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

    6Your handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him.

    7Behold, the whole family is 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 will they quench my coal which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.

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

    9The woman of Tekoa said to the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house; and the king and his throne be guiltless.

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

    11Then said she, 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, there shall not one hair of your son fall to the earth.

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

    13The 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.

  • 1 Sam 26:18-19
    2 verses
    77%

    18He said, Why does my lord pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in my hand?

    19Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it be Yahweh that has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering: but if it be the children of men, cursed be they before Yahweh: for they have driven me out this day that I shouldn't cling to Yahweh's inheritance, saying, Go, serve other gods.

  • 2 Sam 19:27-28
    2 verses
    76%

    27He 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.

    28For all my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more to the king?

  • 1 Sam 24:15
    76%

    15Yahweh therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.

  • 1 Sam 23:10-12
    3 verses
    75%

    10Then said David, O Yahweh, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.

    11Will 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.

    12Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver up to me and my men into the hand of Saul? Yahweh said, They will deliver you up.

  • 1 Sam 25:30-31
    2 verses
    75%

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

    31that 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 shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember your handmaid.

  • Ps 86:16
    75%

    16Turn to me, and have mercy on me! Give your strength to your servant. Save the son of your handmaid.

  • 1 Sam 25:27-28
    2 verses
    75%

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

    28Please 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.

  • Ps 144:10
    74%

    10You are he who gives salvation to kings, Who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword.

  • Ps 116:16
    73%

    16Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your handmaid. You have freed me from my chains.

  • 1 Chr 17:18
    73%

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

  • 1 Kgs 2:4
    73%

    4That Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, If your children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 1:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20You, 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.

    21Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.

  • 1 Sam 22:14-16
    3 verses
    73%

    14Then 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?

    15Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? be it far from me: don't let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knows nothing of all this, less or more.

    16The king said, You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father's house.

  • 2 Sam 15:15
    73%

    15The king's servants said to the king, Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king shall choose.

  • 1 Kgs 1:13
    72%

    13Go and get you in to king David, and tell him, Didn't you, my lord, king, swear to your handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? why then does Adonijah reign?

  • 1 Sam 24:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn't kill you, know you and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt after my life to take it.

    12Yahweh judge between me and you, and Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand shall not be on you.

  • 1 Kgs 1:17
    72%

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

  • Ps 31:15
    72%

    15My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

  • Josh 2:13
    72%

    13and that you will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death.

  • 1 Kgs 18:9
    72%

    9He said, Wherein have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?

  • 2 Kgs 6:28
    72%

    28The king said to her, What ails you? She answered, This woman said to me, Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.

  • 2 Sam 16:12
    72%

    12It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will requite me good for [his] cursing of me this day.