Verse 5
2 Samuel 14:5
World English Bible, British Edition
5
The king said to her, “What ails you?”
She answered, “Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּֽאמֶר לָ֥/הּ הַ/מֶּ֖לֶךְ מַה לָּ֑/ךְ וַ/תֹּ֗אמֶר אֲבָ֛ל אִשָּֽׁה אַלְמָנָ֥ה אָ֖נִי וַ/יָּ֥מָת אִישִֽׁ/י
English Translation
And the king said to her, "What is it to you?" And she said, "Indeed, I am a widow, and my husband has died."
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Chapter 14 Context
1
Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was towards
Absalom.
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2
Joab sent to Tekoa and brought a wise woman from there, and said to her,
“Please act like a mourner,...
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3
Go in to the king and speak like this to him.” So Joab put the words
in her mouth.
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4
When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face
to the ground, showed respect, and s...
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5
The king said to her, “What ails you?”
She answered, “Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.
6
Your servant had two sons; and they both fought together in the field,
and there was no one to part...
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7
Behold, the whole family has risen against your servant, and they say,
‘Deliver him who struck his b...
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8
The king said to the woman, “Go to your house, and I will give
a command concerning you.”
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9
The woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord, O king, may the
iniquity be on me, and on my father’s...
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10
The king said, “Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me,
and he will not bother you any more.”
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11
Then she said, “Please let the king remember the LORD your God (Elohim),
that the avenger of blood d...
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12
Then the woman said, “Please let your servant speak a word to
my lord the king.”
He said, “Say on.”
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13
The woman said, “Why then have you devised such a thing against
the people of God (Elohim)? For in s...
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14
For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t
be gathered up again; neither...
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15
Now therefore, seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord
the king, it is because the peo...
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16
For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the
man who would destroy me and m...
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17
Then your servant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring
rest; for as an angel of God...
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18
Then the king answered the woman, “Please don’t hide anything
from me that I ask you.”
The woman sai...
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19
The king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?”
The woman answered, “As your soul lives,...
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20
Your servant Joab has done this thing to change the face of the matter.
My lord is wise, according t...
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21
The king said to Joab, “Behold now, I have granted this thing.
Go therefore, and bring the young man...
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22
Joab fell to the ground on his face, showed respect, and blessed
the king. Joab said, “Today your se...
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23
So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
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24
The king said, “Let him return to his own house, but let him not see
my face.” So Absalom returned t...
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25
Now in all Israel there was no one to be so much praised as Absalom
for his beauty. From the sole of...
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26
When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year’s end that
he cut it; because it was heav...
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27
Three sons were born to Absalom, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar.
She was a woman with a beau...
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28
Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem, and he didn’t see the king’s
face.
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29
Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king, but he would not
come to him. Then he sent agai...
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30
Therefore he said to his servants, “Behold, Joab’s field is near mine,
and he has barley there. Go a...
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31
Then Joab arose and came to Absalom to his house, and said to
him, “Why have your servants set my fi...
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32
Absalom answered Joab, “Behold, I sent to you, saying, ‘Come
here, that I may send you to the king,...
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33
So Joab came to the king and told him; and when he had called
for Absalom, he came to the king and b...
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