Verse 11
2 Samuel 14:11
Literal Standard Version
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And she says, “Please let the king remember by your God (Elohim) YHWH, that the redeemer of blood does not add to destroy, and they do not destroy my son”; and he says, “YHWH lives; if there falls even one hair of your son to the earth.”
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/תֹּאמֶר֩ יִזְכָּר נָ֨א הַ/מֶּ֜לֶךְ אֶת יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֗י/ךָ מ/הרבית מֵ/הַרְבַּ֞ת גֹּאֵ֤ל הַ/דָּם֙ לְ/שַׁחֵ֔ת וְ/לֹ֥א יַשְׁמִ֖ידוּ אֶת בְּנִ֑/י וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר֙ חַי יְהוָ֔ה אִם יִפֹּ֛ל מִ/שַּׂעֲרַ֥ת בְּנֵ֖/ךְ אָֽרְצָ/ה
English Translation
And he said, "Let the king remember your God, that he may not multiply the blood of the slain and let them not destroy my son." And he said, "As the Lord lives, if one of your son's hairs falls to the ground..."
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Chapter 14 Context
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And Joab son of Zeruial knows that the heart of the king is on Absalom,
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and Joab sends to Tekoah, and takes a wise woman from there, and says to her, “Please feign yourself...
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and you have gone to the king, and spoken to him, according to this word”; and Joab puts the words i...
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And the woman of Tekoah speaks to the king, and falls on her face to the earth, and pays respect, an...
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And the king says to her, “What do you want?” And she says, “I am truly a widow woman, and my husban...
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and your maidservant has two sons; and both of them strive in a field, and there is no deliverer bet...
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and behold, the whole family has risen against your maidservant, and say, Give up him who strikes hi...
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And the king says to the woman, “Go to your house, and I give charge concerning you.”
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And the woman of Tekoah says to the king, “On me, my lord, O king, is the iniquity, and on the house...
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10
And the king says, “He who speaks to you, and you have brought him to me, then he does not add to co...
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And she says, “Please let the king remember by your God (Elohim) YHWH, that the redeemer of blood do...
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And the woman says, “Please let your maidservant speak a word to my lord the king”; and he says, “Sp...
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13
And the woman says, “And why have you thought thus concerning the people of God (Elohim)? Indeed, th...
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for we surely die, and are as water which is running down to the earth, which is not gathered, and G...
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And now that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people made me af...
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for the king listens to deliver his handmaid out of the paw of the man seeking to destroy me and my...
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and your maidservant says, Please let the word of my lord the king be for ease; for as a messenger o...
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And the king answers and says to the woman, “Please do not hide from me the thing that I am asking y...
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And the king says, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” And the woman answers and says, “Your...
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Your servant Joab has done this thing in order to bring around the appearance of the thing, and my l...
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And the king says to Joab, “Now behold, you have done this thing; and go, bring back the young man A...
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And Joab falls on his face to the earth, and pays respect, and blesses the king, and Joab says, “Tod...
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23
And Joab rises and goes to Geshur, and brings in Absalom to Jerusalem,
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and the king says, “Let him turn around to his house, and he does not see my face.” And Absalom turn...
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25
And there was no man so beautiful in all Israel like Absalom, to praise greatly; from the sole of hi...
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and in his shaving his head—and it has been at the end of year by year that he shaves it, for it is...
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27
And there are born to Absalom three sons and one daughter, and her name is Tamar; she was a woman of...
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28
And Absalom dwells in Jerusalem for two years of days, and he has not seen the face of the king;
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and Absalom sends to Joab, to send him to the king, and he has not been willing to come to him; and...
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And he says to his servants, “See, the portion of Joab is by the side of mine, and he has barley the...
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And Joab rises and comes to Absalom in the house, and says to him, “Why have your servants burned th...
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And Absalom says to Joab, “Behold, I sent to you, saying, Come here, and I send you to the king to s...
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And Joab comes to the king, and declares it to him, and he calls to Absalom, and he comes to the kin...
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