2 Samuel 14:14 BSB — MannaFest

2 Samuel 14:14

For surely we will die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.

BSB

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ASV

For 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.

KJV

For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.

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Commentary

6 voices

John Cassian

CONFERENCE 13.7 (435)

For God's purpose, according to which he did not make the human being to perish but to live forever, abides unchanging. When his kindness sees shining in us the slightest glimmer of good will, which he himself has in fact sparked from the hard flint of our heart, he fosters it, stirs it up and strengthens it with his inspiration, "desiring all to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth." For, he says, "it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish."

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Respect - So far as to exempt him from this common law of dying. Not expelled - He hath given laws to this purpose, that the man-slayer who is banished should not always continue in banishment, but upon the High-priest's death return to his own city.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Here are two great instances of the mercy of God to sinners, properly urged as reasons for showing mercy: --First, The patience he exercises towards them. His law is broken, yet he does not immediately take away the life of those that break it, does not strike sinners dead, as justly he might, in the act of sin, but bears with them, and waits to be gracious.

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

For we must needs die - Whatever is done must be done quickly; all must die; God has not exempted any person from this common lot. Though Amnon be dead, yet the death of Absalom cannot bring him to life, nor repair this loss. Besides, for his crime, he justly deserved to die; and thou, in this case didst not administer justice. Horrible as this fratricide is, it is a pardonable case: the crime of Amnon was the most flagitious; and the offense to Absalom, the ruin of his beloved sister, indescribably great.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

(1870)

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Original language & word study

19 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
מ֣וֹת	Mot	certainly <to die>	H4191 →
נָמ֔וּת	na.Mut	we will die	H4191 →
וְכַמַּ֙יִם֙	ve.kha.Ma.yim	and [we are] like <the> waters	H4325 →
הַנִּגָּרִ֣ים	ha.ni.ga.Rim	which are spilled	H5064 →
אַ֔רְצָה	'Ar.tzah	[the] ground towards	H776 →
אֲשֶׁ֖ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
לֹ֣א	lo'	not	H3808 →
יֵאָסֵ֑פוּ	ye.'a.Se.fu	they will be gathered	H622 →
וְלֹֽא־	ve.lo'-	and not	H3808 →
יִשָּׂ֤א	yi.Sa'	he takes away	H5375 →
אֱלֹהִים֙	'E.lo.Him	God	H430 →
נֶ֔פֶשׁ	Ne.fesh	life	H5315 →
וְחָשַׁב֙	ve.cha.Shav	and he plans	H2803 →
מַֽחֲשָׁב֔וֹת	ma.cha.sha.Vot	plans	H4284 →
לְבִלְתִּ֛י	le.vil.Ti	to not	H1115 →
יִדַּ֥ח	yi.Dach	he will be cast out	H5080 →
מִמֶּ֖נּוּ	mi.Me.nu	from him	H4480 →
נִדָּֽח׃	ni.Dach	a banished [one]	H5080 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Hebrews 9:27
Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,
leads to
- Ecclesiastes 12:7
  before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 2 Corinthians 5:10
  For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad.
- Ecclesiastes 12:14
  For God will bring every deed into judgment, along with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.
- Acts 17:31
  For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”
- John 5:26–29
  For as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted the Son to have life in Himself.
Through
Job 34:15
all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.
leads to
- Genesis 3:19
  By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
- Isaiah 57:16
  For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me, with the breath of those I have made.
Through
Job 30:23
Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
leads to
- Ecclesiastes 12:5–7
  when men fear the heights and dangers of the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry shrivels—for then man goes to his eternal home and mourners…

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David Mourns the Death of Absalom — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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02Original language & word study

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04Related verses

06About 2 Samuel

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Where the connections lead

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The walk

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