Then go to the king and speak these words to him.’ And Joab put the words in her mouth.

When the woman from Tekoa went[a] to the king, she fell with her face to the ground to pay him honour, and she said, ‘Help me, Your Majesty!’

The king asked her, ‘What is troubling you?’

She said, ‘I am a widow; my husband is dead.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 14:4 Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts spoke