2 Samuel 14:16
Good News Translation
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.

New Revised Standard Version
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.’

Contemporary English Version
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.

New American Bible
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.’

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Context
Absalom's Return to Jerusalem
15Now therefore I am come, to speak this word to my lord the king before the people. And thy handmaid said: I will speak to the king, it maybe the king will perform the request of his handmaid. 16And 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.17Then let thy handmaid say, that the word of the Lord the king be made as a sacrifice. For even as an angel of God, so is my lord the king, that he is neither moved with blessing nor cursing: wherefore the Lord thy God is also with thee.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:9
But the Lord's portion is his people: Jacob the lot of his inheritance.

1 Samuel 26:19
Now therefore hear, I pray thee, my lord the king, the words of thy servant: If the Lord stir thee up against me, let him accept of sacrifice: but if the sons of men, they are cursed in the sight of the Lord, who have cast me out this day, that I should not dwell in the inheritance of the Lord, saying: Go, serve strange gods.

2 Samuel 14:15
Now therefore I am come, to speak this word to my lord the king before the people. And thy handmaid said: I will speak to the king, it maybe the king will perform the request of his handmaid.

2 Samuel 20:19
Am not I she that answer truth in Israel, and thou seekest to destroy the city, and to overthrow a mother in Israel? Why wilt thou throw down the inheritance of the Lord?

2 Samuel 14:15
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