2 Samuel 14:20
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“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.””
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“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 · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“in order to bring round the appearance of the thing hath thy servant Joab done this thing, and my lord <FI>is<Fi> wise, according to the wisdom of a messenger of God, to know all that <FI>is<Fi> in the land.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 2 Samuel 14:20 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 3:5“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.”
- 1 Samuel 29:9Achish replied, “I know that you are as pleasing in my sight as an angel of God. But the commanders of the Philistines have said, ‘He must not go into battle with us.’
- 2 Samuel 5:23So 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.
- 2 Samuel 14:17And 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 18:13If I had jeopardized my own life—and nothing is hidden from the king—you would have abandoned me.”
- 2 Samuel 19:27and 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.
- 2 Samuel 19:28For all the house of my grandfather deserves death from my lord the king, yet you have set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right, then, do I have to keep appealing to the king?”
- Job 32:21I will be partial to no one, nor will I flatter any man.
- Job 38:16Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?
- Proverbs 26:28A lying tongue hates those it crushes, and a flattering mouth causes ruin.
- Proverbs 29:5A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
- 1 Corinthians 8:1Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).