The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 13:39 (KJV)
And the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.

 

[Hizikyah]

2 Samuel 14:1, "And Yo’aḇ son of Tseruyah knew that the heart of the sovereign was towards Aḇshalom."

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 14:2 (HCSB)
So Joab sent someone to Tekoa to bring a clever woman from there. He told her, "Pretend to be in mourning: dress in mourning clothes and don't put on any oil. Act like a woman who has been mourning for the dead for a long time.

 

[Hizikyah]

2 Samuel 14:3, "“Then you shall go to the sovereign and speak to him according to this word.” And Yo’aḇ put the words in her mouth."

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 14:4 (KJV)
And when the woman of Tekoah spake to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 14:5 (KJV)
And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.

 

[phil36]

[h=1]2 Samuel 14:6New International Version - UK (NIVUK)[/h][FONT=&quot]6 I your servant had two sons. They got into a fight with each other in the field, and no one was there to separate them. One struck the other and killed him.[/FONT]

 

[Hizikyah]

2 Samuel 14:7, "“And see, the entire clan has risen up against your female servant and said, ‘Give him who struck his brother, so that we put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed, and destroy the heir also.’ Thus they would extinguish my burning coal that is left, and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant on the earth.”"

 

[phil36]

[h=1]2 Samuel 14:8New International Version - UK (NIVUK)[/h][FONT=&quot]8 The king said to the woman, ‘Go home, and I will issue an order on your behalf.’[/FONT]

 

[Hizikyah]

2 Samuel 14:9, "And the woman of Teqowa said to the sovereign, “My master, O sovereign, let the crookedness be on me and on my father’s house, and the sovereign and his throne be guiltless.”"

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 14:10 (KJV)
And the king said, Whosoever saith ought unto thee, bring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more.

 

[Hizikyah]

2 Samuel 14:11, "And she said, “Please let the sovereign remember יהוה your Strength, and the redeemer of blood not destroy any more, lest they destroy my son.” And he said, “As יהוה lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground.”

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 14:12 (KJV)
Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak one word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.

 

[Hizikyah]

2 Samuel 14:13, "And the woman said, “And why have you reasoned like this against the people of Yah? For in speaking this word the sovereign is as one who is guilty, in that the sovereign does not bring his outcast one home again."

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 14:14 (KJV)
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.

 

[Hizikyah]

2 Samuel 14:15, "“And now I have come to speak this word to my master the sovereign because the people have made me afraid. And your female servant said, ‘Please let me speak to the sovereign, it could be that the sovereign does what his female servant asks,"

 

[willfollowsGod]

2 Samuel 14:16
New International Version (NIV)

Perhaps the king will agree to deliver his servant from the hand of the man who is trying to cut off both me and my son from God’s inheritance.’

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 14:17 (KJV)
Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD thy God will be with thee.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 14:18 (KJV)
Then the king answered and said unto the woman, Hide not from me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall ask thee. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.

 

[Hizikyah]

2 Samuel 14:19, "And the sovereign said, “Is the hand of Yo’aḇ with you in all this?” And the woman answered and said, “As your being lives, my master the sovereign, no one turns to the right or to the left from all that my master the sovereign has spoken. For your servant Yo’aḇ commanded me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your female servant."