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2Sa 14:14 — 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

we must		2Sa 11:25; Job 30:23; Job 34:15; Psa 90:3,10; Ecc 3:19,20; Ecc 9:5; Hbr 9:27
as water		Job 14:7-12,14; Psa 22:14; Psa 79:3
neither, etc.		or, because God hath not taken away his life, he hath also devised means, etc.
God		Deu 10:17; Job 34:19; Mat 22:16; Act 10:34; Rom 2:11; 1Pe 1:17
he devise		Exd 21:13; Lev 26:40; Num 35:15,25,28; Isa 50:1,2

Correlating Passages

we must

	2Sa 11:25	Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.
	Job 30:23	For I know [that] thou wilt bring me [to] death, and [to] the house appointed for all living.
	Job 34:15	All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
	Psa 90:3	Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
	Psa 90:10	The days of our years [are] threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength [they be] fourscore years, yet [is] their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
	Ecc 3:19	For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all [is] vanity.
	Ecc 3:20	All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
	Ecc 9:5	For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
	Hbr 9:27	And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

as water

	Job 14:7	For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
	Job 14:8	Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
	Job 14:9	[Yet] through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
	Job 14:10	But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where [is] he?
	Job 14:11	[As] the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
	Job 14:12	So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens [be] no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
	Job 14:14	If a man die, shall he live [again]? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
	Psa 22:14	I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
	Psa 79:3	Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and [there was] none to bury [them].

God

	Deu 10:17	For the LORD your God [is] God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
	Job 34:19	[How much less to him] that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all [are] the work of his hands.
	Mat 22:16	And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any [man]: for thou regardest not the person of men.
	Act 10:34	Then Peter opened [his] mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
	Rom 2:11	For there is no respect of persons with God.
	1Pe 1:17	And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning [here] in fear:

he devise

	Exd 21:13	And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver [him] into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.
	Lev 26:40	If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
	Num 35:15	These six cities shall be a refuge, [both] for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither.
	Num 35:25	And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall abide in it unto the death of the high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil.
	Num 35:28	Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the slayer shall return into the land of his possession.
	Isa 50:1	Thus saith the LORD, Where [is] the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors [is it] to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
	Isa 50:2	Wherefore, when I came, [was there] no man? when I called, [was there] none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because [there is] no water, and dieth for thirst.

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Scott, Thomas. "2 Samuel 14:14," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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