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2 Samuel 14:13

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
- 13 The woman said: “Why, then, have you thought to do something like this against the people of God?+ When the king speaks this way, he makes himself guilty, for the king does not bring back his own banished son.+

2 Samuel 14:13

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- 13 The woman said: “Why, then, have you thought to do something like this against the people of God?+ When the king speaks this way, he makes himself guilty, for the king does not bring back his own banished son.+

2 Samuel 14:13

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 13 And the woman went on to say: “Why, then, have you reasoned like this+ against the people of God?+ As the king is speaking this word he is like one that is guilty,+ in that the king does not bring back his own banished one.+

2 Samuel 14:13

The Bible in Living English
- 13 And the woman said “And why have you had such a design as this against God’s people—which, by the word the king has said, amounts to guilt—that the king should not bring home his outcast?

2 Samuel 14:13

The Emphasized Bible
- 13 And the woman said, Wherefore, then, hast thou devised the like of this for the people of God; and yet the king in speaking this word is verily guilty, unless the king bring back his fugitive?

2 Samuel 14:13

King James Version
- 13 And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished.