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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

American Standard Version
- 13 And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou devised such a thing against the people of God? for in speaking this word the king is as one that is guilty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished one.

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.