2 Samuel 14:17 Cross References - Rotherham

¹⁷ So thy maidservant said, Pray let the word of my lord the king be comforting,––for, as the messenger of God, so is my lord the king, in hearing the good and the bad, Yahweh thy God, then, be with thee.

⁹ Then answered Achish, and said unto David, I acknowledge that, pleasing, thou art in mine eyes, as a messenger of God,––notwithstanding, the princes of the Philistines, have said, He shall not go up with us, into the battle.

²⁰ for the purpose of turning round the face of the matter, hath thy servant Joab done this thing,––my lord being wise, as with the wisdom of a messenger of God, in knowing all that is [done] in the land.

²⁷ And he hath slandered thy servant, unto my lord the king,––but, my lord the king, is as a messenger of God, do therefore what is good in thine own eyes.

⁹ Wilt thou, then, give unto thy servant, a heart that hearkeneth, to judge thy people, to discern between good and bad,––for who is able to judge this thine honoured people?

²⁸ And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had delivered, and they stood in awe before the king,––for they saw, that, the wisdom of God, was in him, to execute justice.

³⁰ Is there, in my tongue, perversity? Or can, my sense, not discern, engulfing ruin?

²¹ Fining pot for silver, and crucible for gold, and, a man, [is to be tried] by what he praiseth.

⁵ A man who flattereth his neighbour, spreadeth, a net, over his steps.

¹⁴ But, a man of the soul, doth not welcome the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him, and he cannot get to know them, because, spiritually, are they examined; ¹⁵ But, the man of the spirit, on the one hand, examineth all things, but, on the other, he himself, by no one, is examined.

¹⁴ But, to such as are mature, pertaineth, the strong food, to them who, by reason of habit, have their organs of perception well trained for discriminating both good and evil.