2 Samuel 14:17 “And now your servant says, ‘May the word of my lord the king bring me…”

2 Samuel 14:17

And now your servant says, ‘May the word of my lord the king bring me rest, for my lord the king is able to discern good and evil, just like the angel of God. May the LORD your God be with you.’”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD thy God will be with thee.

World English Bible

Then your servant 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 the LORD, your God, be with you.’”

American Standard Version

Then thy handmaid said, Let, I pray thee, 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 Jehovah thy God be with thee.

Geneva Bible 1599

Therefore thine handmaid sayd, The word of my lord the King shall now be comfortable: for my lorde the King is euen as an Angel of God in hearing of good and bad: therefore the Lord thy God be with thee.

Darby Translation

And thy bondmaid said, Let the word of my lord the king now be comfortable; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad; and Jehovah thy God will be with thee.

Young's Literal Translation

and thy maid-servant saith, Let, I pray thee, the word of my lord the king be for ease; for as a messenger of God so [is] my lord the king, to understand the good and the evil; and Jehovah thy God is with thee.'

Bible in Basic English

Then your servant said, May the word of my lord the king give me peace! for my lord the king is as the angel of God in his hearing of good and bad: and may the Lord your God be with you!

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Cross references

“comfortable”

2 Samuel 19:27 1 Samuel 29:9 2 Samuel 14:20 Proverbs 27:21 Proverbs 29:5

2 Samuel 19:27 · BSB

and he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. Yet my lord the king is like the angel of God, so do what is good in your eyes.

1 Samuel 29:9 · BSB

Achish replied, “I know that you are as pleasing in my sight as an angel of God. But the commanders of the Philistines have said, ‘He must not go into battle with us.’

2 Samuel 14:20 · BSB

Joab your servant has done this to bring about this change of affairs, but my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God, to know everything that happens in the land.”

Proverbs 27:21 · BSB

A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but a man is tested by the praise accorded him.

Proverbs 29:5 · BSB

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

“to discern”

1 Kings 3:9 Hebrews 5:14 Job 6:30 1 Kings 3:28 1 Corinthians 2:14 1 Corinthians 2:15

1 Kings 3:9 · BSB

Therefore give Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people and to discern between good and evil. For who is able to govern this great people of Yours?”

Hebrews 5:14 · BSB

But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained their senses to distinguish good from evil.

Job 6:30 · BSB

Is there iniquity on my tongue? Can my mouth not discern malice?

1 Kings 3:28 · BSB

When all Israel heard of the judgment the king had given, they stood in awe of him, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to administer justice.

1 Corinthians 2:14 · BSB

The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

1 Corinthians 2:15 · BSB

The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16For 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.’

18Then the king said to the woman, “I am going to ask you something; do not conceal it from me!” “Let my lord the king speak,” she replied.

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