2 Samuel 14:14

Overview - 2 Samuel 14
Joab, suborning a widow of Tekoah by a parable to incline the king's heart to fetch home Absalom, brings him to Jerusalem.
25 Absalom's beauty, hair, and children.
28 After two years, Absalom is brought into the king's presence by Joab.
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2 Samuel 14:14  (King James Version)
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.
 


we must
11:25 Job 30:23 ; 34:15 Psalms 90:3 Psalms 90:10 ; Ecclesiastes 3:19 Ecclesiastes 3:20 ; 9:5 Hebrews 9:27

as water
Job 14:7-12 Job 14:14 ; Psalms 22:14 ; 79:3

neither, etc or, because God hath not taken away his life,
he hath also devised means, etc
God.
Deuteronomy 10:17 ; Job 34:19 ; Matthew 22:16 ; Acts 10:34 ; Romans 2:11 ; 1 Peter 1:17

he devise
Exodus 21:13 ; Leviticus 26:40 ; Numbers 35:15 Numbers 35:25 Numbers 35:28 ; Isaiah 50:1 Isaiah 50:2