Verse 31
2 Samuel 14:31
Literal Standard Version
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And Joab rises and comes to Absalom in the house, and says to him, “Why have your servants burned the portion that I have with fire?”
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יָּ֣קָם יוֹאָ֔ב וַ/יָּבֹ֥א אֶל אַבְשָׁל֖וֹם הַ/בָּ֑יְתָ/ה וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלָ֔י/ו לָ֣/מָּה הִצִּ֧יתוּ עֲבָדֶ֛/ךָ אֶת הַ/חֶלְקָ֥ה אֲשֶׁר לִ֖/י בָּ/אֵֽשׁ
English Translation
And Joab arose and went to Absalom's house and said to him, "Why have your servants set my field on fire?"
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Chapter 14 Context
1
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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