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2 Samuel 14:5 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" The king said to her, “What ails you?” She answered, “Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead. "

2 Samuel 14:5

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3 Go in to the king and speak like this to him.” So Joab put the words in her mouth.

4 When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, showed respect, and said, “Help, O king!”

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 them, but the one struck the other and killed him.

7 Behold, the whole family has risen against your servant, and they say, ‘Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.’ Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.”

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2 Samuel 14:1

"Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was toward Absalom."

2 Samuel 14:2

"Joab sent to Tekoa and brought a wise woman from there, and said to her, “Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don’t anoint yourself with oil; but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead."

2 Samuel 14:3

"Go in to the king and speak like this to him.” So Joab put the words in her mouth."

2 Samuel 14:4

"When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, showed respect, and said, “Help, O king!”"

2 Samuel 14:6

"Your servant had two sons; and they both fought together in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other and killed him."

2 Samuel 14:7

"Behold, the whole family has risen against your servant, and they say, ‘Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.’ Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.”"

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