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 · 2000Now 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 · 1611Now 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 · 1901Now 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.