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2 Samuel 14:16
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KJ21
For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.’
ASV
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.
AMP
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.’
AMPC
For the king will hear to deliver his handmaid from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together from [Israel] the inheritance of God.
BRG
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.
CSB
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.
CSBA
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.
CEB
because the king will agree to deliver his servant from the power of anyone who would destroy both me and my son from the inheritance God gave.
CJB
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.’
CEV
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.
DARBY
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.
DRA
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.
ERV
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.’
EASY
Perhaps he will listen to me. Perhaps he will save me from the man who wants to destroy both me and my son. That man wants to take away from us the land that God gave to us.”
EHV
for the king will listen and deliver his servant from the hand of the man who is trying to destroy both me and my son, to remove us from our inheritance from God.’
ESV
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.’
ESVUK
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.’
EXB
Maybe he will listen. Perhaps he will ·save [rescue; deliver] me from ·those who want to keep both me and my son from getting what God gave us [L the hand of the man who would cut me and my son from God’s inheritance/heritage].’
GNV
For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me, and also my son from the inheritance of God.
GW
Maybe the king will listen and rescue me, his subject, from the man who wants to cut off both me and my son from ⌞our⌟ God-given inheritance.’
GNT
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.
HCSB
The king will surely listen in order to rescue his servant from the hand of this man who would eliminate both me and my son from God’s inheritance.
ICB
Maybe he will listen. Perhaps he will save me from the man who wants to kill both me and my son. That man is trying to keep us from getting what God gave us.’
ISV
Perhaps the king will listen and deliver his humble servant from the oppression of the man who intends to eliminate both me and my son from what God has apportioned to us!’
JUB
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.
KJV
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.
AKJV
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.
LSB
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.’
LEB
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.’
TLB
But I have come to plead with you for my son because my life and my son’s life have been threatened, and I said to myself, ‘Perhaps the king will listen to me and rescue us from those who would end our existence in Israel.
MSG
“So now I’ve dared come to the king, my master, about all this. They’re making my life miserable, and I’m afraid. I said to myself, ‘I’ll go to the king. Maybe he’ll do something! When the king hears what’s going on, he’ll step in and rescue me from the abuse of the man who would get rid of me and my son and God’s inheritance—the works!’ As your handmaid, I decided ahead of time, ‘The word of my master, the king, will be the last word in this, for my master is like an angel of God in discerning good and evil.’ God be with you!”
MEV
For the king may accept my request to deliver his servant from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son from the inheritance of God.’
NOG
Maybe the king will listen and rescue me, his subject, from the man who wants to cut off both me and my son from our Elohim-given inheritance.’
NABRE
For the king must surely listen and rescue his servant from the grasp of one who would destroy both me and my son from the heritage of God.’
NASB
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.’
NASB1995
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.’
NCB
He will surely listen to me and deliver his servant from the hands of those who seek to cut off both me and my son from God’s inheritance.’
NCV
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.’
NET
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!’
NIRV
A man is trying to separate me and my son from the property God gave us. Perhaps the king will agree to save me from that man.’
NIV
Perhaps the king will agree to deliver his servant from the hand of the man who is trying to cut off both me and my son from God’s inheritance.’
NIVUK
Perhaps the king will agree to deliver his servant from the hand of the man who is trying to cut off both me and my son from God’s inheritance.”
NKJV
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.’
NLV
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.’
NLT
and rescue us from those who would cut us off from the inheritance God has given us.
NRSVA
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.”
NRSVACE
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.”
NRSVCE
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.’
NRSVUE
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.’
OJB
For HaMelech will hear, to deliver his amah (servant) out of the palm of the ish that would destroy me and beni (my son) together out of the nachalat Elohim.
RGT
‘For the king will hear and deliver his handmaid (and also my son) out of the hand of the man who would destroy me from the inheritance of God.’
RSV
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.’
RSVCE
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.’
TLV
Surely the king will hear, to deliver his maidservant from the hand of the one who would eliminate both me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.’
VOICE
And if the king hears, he will deliver me out of the hands of those who would make my son and me exiles from the inheritance of God.”
WEB
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.
WYC
And the king heard the words, that he should deliver his handmaid from the hands of all men, that would do away me, and my son together, from the heritage of the Lord. (And for the king to hear these words, so that he might deliver his servantess from the hands of all those who would do away me, and my son, from the Lord’s inheritance.)
YLT
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,
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