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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. {Help: Heb. Save}”

— 2 Samuel 14:4

Verse 3

And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.

Verse 5

And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I {am} indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.

2 Samuel 14 — Context

2

And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:

3

And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.

4

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. {Help: Heb. Save}

5

And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I {am} indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.

6

And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and {there was} none to part them, but the one smote the other, and slew him. {none...: Heb. no deliverer between them}

Cross References

1 Samuel 25:23

And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,

2 Samuel 1:2

It came even to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul with his clothes rent, and earth upon his head: and {so} it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance.

2 Kings 6:26-28

And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.

1 Samuel 20:41

{And} as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of {a place} toward the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.

Job 29:12-14

Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and {him that had} none to help him.

Luke 18:3-5

And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.

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