2 Samuel 14:20 “Joab your servant has done this to bring about this change of affairs,…”

2 Samuel 14:20

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.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

To fetch about this form of speech hath thy 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.

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

to change the face of the matter hath thy 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.

Geneva Bible 1599

For to the intent that I should chage the forme of speach, thy seruant Ioab hath done this thing: but my lord is wise according to the wisdome of an Angel of God to vnderstande all things that are in the earth.

Darby Translation

in order to turn the appearance of the thing has thy servant Joab done this thing; but my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all that is in the earth.

Young's Literal Translation

in order to bring round the appearance of the thing hath thy servant Joab done this thing, and my lord [is] wise, according to the wisdom of a messenger of God, to know all that [is] in the land.'

Bible in Basic English

This he did, hoping that the face of this business might be changed: and my lord is wise, with the wisdom of the angel of God, having knowledge of everything on earth.

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Cross references

“fetch”

2 Samuel 5:23

2 Samuel 5:23 · BSB

So David inquired of the LORD, who answered, “Do not march straight up, but circle around behind them and attack them in front of the balsam trees.

“according”

2 Samuel 14:17 2 Samuel 19:27 Proverbs 26:28 Proverbs 29:5 Job 32:21 Job 32:22

2 Samuel 14:17 · BSB

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.’”

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.

Proverbs 26:28 · BSB

A lying tongue hates those it crushes, and a flattering mouth causes ruin.

Proverbs 29:5 · BSB

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

Job 32:21 · BSB

I will be partial to no one, nor will I flatter any man.

Job 32:22 · BSB

For I do not know how to flatter, or my Maker would remove me in an instant.

“to know”

Genesis 3:5 Job 38:16–41 1 Corinthians 8:1 1 Corinthians 8:2

Genesis 3:5 · BSB

“For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Job 38:16–41 · BSB

Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?

1 Corinthians 8:1 · BSB

Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

1 Corinthians 8:2 · BSB

The one who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.

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

In context

19So the king asked, “Is the hand of Joab behind all this?” The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything that my lord the king says. Yes, your servant Joab is the one who gave me orders; he told your maidservant exactly what to say.

21Then the king said to Joab, “I hereby grant this request. Go, bring back the young man Absalom.”

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