"For we must needs die, and {are} as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respe…" — 2 Samuel 14:14

2 Samuel 14:14 · KJV

“For we must needs die, and {are} as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect {any} person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him. {neither...: or, because God hath not taken away his life, he hath also devised means, etc}”

— 2 Samuel 14:14

Verse 13

And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished.

Verse 15

Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king, {it is} because the people have made me afraid: and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid.

2 Samuel 14 — Context

Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak {one} word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.

For we must needs die, and {are} as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect {any} person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him. {neither...: or, because God hath not taken away his life, he hath also devised means, etc}

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.

Cross References

Job 30:23

For I know {that} thou wilt bring me {to} death, and {to} the house appointed for all living.

Numbers 35:28

Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the slayer shall return into the land of his possession.

Hebrews 9:27

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

Numbers 35:25

And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall abide in it unto the death of the high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil.

Job 34:15

All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.

Numbers 35:15

These six cities shall be a refuge, {both} for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither.

Psalms 22:14

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. {out of...: or, sundered}

Job 14:7-12

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.

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