2 Samuel 14:17

14:17 So your servant said, ‘May the word of my lord the king be my security, for my lord the king is like the angel of God when it comes to deciding between right and wrong! May the Lord your God be with you!’”

2 Samuel 14:20

14:20 Your servant Joab did this so as to change this situation. But my lord has wisdom like that of the angel of God, and knows everything that is happening in the land.” ¹ 

2 Samuel 14:1

David Permits Absalom to Return to Jerusalem

14:1 Now Joab son of Zeruiah realized that the king longed to see ²  Absalom.

1 Samuel 29:9

29:9 Achish replied to David, “I am convinced that you are as reliable ³  as the angel of God! However, the leaders of the Philistines have said, ‘He must not go up with us in the battle.’

[14:20]  ¹ tn Heb “to know all that is in the land.”

[14:1]  ² tn Heb “the heart of the king was upon.” The Syriac Peshitta adds the verb ’ethre’i (“was reconciled”).

[29:9]  ³ tn Heb “I know that you are good in my eyes.”