2 Samuel 14:15

2 Samuel chapter 14 · verse 15 in three public-domain English translations with scriptural context

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Now therefore seeing that I am come to speak this word 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 servant.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Now therefore seeing that I am come to speak this word 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 servant.

Context

v.14For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God take away life, but deviseth means, that he that is banished be not an outcast from him.

v.15This passage

v.16For 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.