17 Then your servant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king be [a]comforting, for as (A)the angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and evil. And may the Lord your God be with you.’”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 14:17 Lit for rest

17 “And now your servant says, ‘May the word of my lord the king secure my inheritance, for my lord the king is like an angel(A) of God in discerning(B) good and evil. May the Lord your God be with you.’”

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20 In order to change the appearance of things your servant Joab has done this thing. But my lord is wise, (A)like the wisdom of the angel of God, to know all that is on the earth.”

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20 Your servant Joab did this to change the present situation. My lord has wisdom(A) like that of an angel of God—he knows everything that happens in the land.(B)

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