2 Samuel 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.

Cross-reference

Job 30:23 Parallel

Job 30:23 declares God brings all to death, the 'house appointed for all living' — directly parallel to 'we must all die' here.

Hebrews 9:27 declares 'it is appointed for man to die once' — a clear NT echo of the OT mortality principle here.

Ecclesiastes 9:5 notes the living know they will die — reinforcing the universal certainty of death from this verse.

Ecclesiastes 3:20 says all go to one place, from dust to dust — a direct parallel to the inevitability of death here.

Ecclesiastes 3:19 states humans and beasts share the same death, 'as one dies, so dies the other' — strongly parallel to 'we must all die'.

Psalm 90:3 Parallel

Psalm 90:3 says God turns man back to dust, 'Return, O children of man' — a parallel affirmation of inevitable death.

Job 34:15 Parallel

Job 34:15 says all flesh would perish and man return to dust, echoing the same universal mortality as this verse.

Job 10:21 Parallel

In Job 10:21, death is 'the place of no return' — identical theme of death's finality as the water metaphor.

Job 7:9 Parallel

In Job 7:9, death is a vanishing cloud — the same point: death is irreversible and one cannot return.

In Ecclesiastes 8:8, no one has power over the day of death — directly supports the statement 'we will surely die'.

In Ezekiel 33:11, God desires repentance, not death — mirrors the woman's point that God devises ways to restore the banished.

Job 14:14 Parallel

In Job 14:14, he asks if the dead can live again — probing the hope of restoration that the main verse suggests God provides.

Numbers 35:15 establishes cities of refuge for unintentional manslayers — a legal expression of God's mercy for the banished.

Exodus 21:13 provides a place of refuge for accidental killers, mirroring God's plan to restore the banished.

In Job 14:7-12, man's death is final like a felled tree, echoing the water-spilled imagery and reinforcing the irreversibility of death.

Numbers 35:28 allows the manslayer to return after the high priest's death — a provision for the banished to be restored.

Numbers 35:25 describes restoration to the city of refuge after a period — echoing God's way of bringing back the banished.