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Literal Standard Version

2 Samuel 14:16

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,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Absalom;   David;   Dishonesty;   Intercession;   Joab;   Kindness;   Obsequiousness;   Tact;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Absalom;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Joab;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Mediator, Mediation;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Court Systems;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Priests and Levites;   Samuel, Books of;   Wisdom;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Absalom;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Jo'ab;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Samuel, Books of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Absalom;   Banishment;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The king will surely listen in order to keep his servant from the grasp of this man who would eliminate both me and my son from God’s inheritance.
Hebrew Names Version
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.
King James Version
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.
Lexham English Bible
For the king will listen, to deliver his servant from the hand of the man who seeks to destroy me and my son together from the inheritance of God.'
English Standard Version
For the king will hear and deliver his servant from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together from the heritage of God.'
New Century Version
Maybe he will listen. Perhaps he will save me from those who want to keep both me and my son from getting what God gave us.'
New English Translation
Yes! The king may listen and deliver his female servant from the hand of the man who seeks to remove both me and my son from the inheritance God has given us!'
Amplified Bible
'For the king will hear and save his maidservant from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together from the inheritance of God.'
New American Standard Bible
'For the king will listen, to save his slave from the hand of the man who would eliminate both me and my son from the inheritance of God.'
Geneva Bible (1587)
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.
Legacy Standard Bible
For the king will listen and deliver his maidservant from the hand of the man who would destroy both me and my son from the inheritance of God.'
Contemporary English Version
In fact, I knew that you would listen and save my son and me from those who want to take the land that God gave us.
Complete Jewish Bible
For the king will listen and rescue his servant from the hands of those who would destroy me and my son together from our share of God's inheritance.'
Darby Translation
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.
Easy-to-Read Version
The king will listen to me and save me from the man who wants to kill me and my son. That man just wants to keep us from getting what God gave us.'
George Lamsa Translation
That they may not destroy me and my son together from the heritage of God.
Good News Translation
I thought you would listen to me and save me from the one who is trying to kill my son and me and so remove us from the land God gave his people.
Literal Translation
For the king has listened, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man seeking to destroy me and my son together, out of the inheritance of God.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
for he shall heare his handmayden, to delyuer me from the hande of all them, that wolde destroye me with my sonne from the enheritaunce of God.
American Standard Version
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.
Bible in Basic English
For the king will give ear, and take his servant out of the power of the man whose purpose is the destruction of me and my son together from the heritage of God.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the king shall heare his handmayde, to deliuer her out of the hand of the man that woulde haue destroyed me, and also my sonne out of the inheritaunce of God.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.
King James Version (1611)
For the king wil heare, to deliuer his handmayd out of the hand of the man that would destroy mee, and my sonne together out of the inheritance of God:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
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.
English Revised Version
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.
Berean Standard Bible
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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the kyng herde the wordis, that he schulde delyuere his handmayde fro the hondis of alle men, that wolden do awei me, and my sone to gidere, fro the eritage of the Lord.
Young's Literal Translation
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,
Update Bible Version
For the king will hear, to deliver his slave out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.
Webster's Bible Translation
For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid from the hand of the man [that would] destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.
World English Bible
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.
New King James Version
For the king will hear and deliver his maidservant from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together from the inheritance of God.'
New Living Translation
and rescue us from those who would cut us off from the inheritance God has given us.
New Life Bible
For the king will hear and save his woman servant from the man who would destroy both me and my son from the gift of God.'
New Revised Standard
For the king will hear, and deliver his servant from the hand of the man who would cut both me and my son off from the heritage of God.'
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For the king can hearken, to rescue his handmaid out of the power of the man who would seek to destroy both me and my son together, out of the inheritance of God.
Douay-Rheims Bible
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.
Revised Standard Version
For the king will hear, and deliver his servant from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together from the heritage of God.'
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'For the king will hear and deliver his maidservant from the hand of the man who would destroy both me and my son from the inheritance of God.'

Contextual Overview

1And Joab son of Zeruial knows that the heart of the king [is] on Absalom, 2and Joab sends to Tekoah, and takes a wise woman from there, and says to her, "Please feign yourself a mourner, and now put on garments of mourning, and do not anoint yourself with oil, and you have been as a woman mourning for the dead [for] these many days, 3and you have gone to the king, and spoken to him, according to this word"; and Joab puts the words into her mouth. 4And the woman of Tekoah speaks to the king, and falls on her face to the earth, and pays respect, and says, "Save, O king." 5And the king says to her, "What do you [want]?" And she says, "I [am] truly a widow woman, and my husband dies, 6and your maidservant has two sons; and both of them strive in a field, and there is no deliverer between them, and one strikes the other, and puts him to death; 7and behold, the whole family has risen against your maidservant, and say, Give up him who strikes his brother, and we put him to death for the life of his brother whom he has slain, and we also destroy the heir; and they have quenched my coal which is left—so as not to set a name and remnant on the face of the ground for my husband." 8And the king says to the woman, "Go to your house, and I give charge concerning you." 9And the woman of Tekoah says to the king, "On me, my lord, O king, [is] the iniquity, and on the house of my father; and the king and his throne [are] innocent." 10And the king says, "He who speaks to you, and you have brought him to me, then he does not add to come against you anymore."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 26:19 - the inheritance

Cross-References

Genesis 12:2
And I make you become a great nation, and bless you, and make your name great; and be a blessing.
Genesis 14:11
And they take the whole substance of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the whole of their food, and go away;
Genesis 14:12
and they take Lot, Abram's brother's son (seeing he is dwelling in Sodom), and his substance, and go away.
Genesis 14:18
And Melchizedek king of Salem has brought out bread and wine, and he [is] priest of God Most High;
Genesis 14:19
and he blesses him and says, "Blessed [is] Abram to God Most High, possessing the heavens and earth;
1 Samuel 30:8
and David inquires of YHWH, saying, "I pursue after this troop—do I overtake it?" And He says to him, "Pursue, for you certainly overtake, and certainly deliver."
Isaiah 41:2
Who stirred up a righteous one from the east? He calls him to His foot, || He gives nations before him, || And He causes him to rule kings, || He gives [them] as dust [to] his sword, || As driven stubble [to] his bow.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the king will hear,.... She was fully persuaded of it, as now he had heard her:

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; he had given his word and his oath that he would deliver her son from the avenger of blood, that neither he nor any other should destroy him; which would have been the destruction of her and her whole family out of the land of Israel, the land which God had chosen for his inheritance, and had given to the of Israel to be theirs; and since the king had heard her, and granted her this favour, she doubted not but that he would deliver his own son from death, and restore him to the inheritance of the land, where he might worship the Lord God of his fathers, of which he was now deprived.


 
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