2 Samuel 14:5-7

International Standard Version

⁵ The king asked her, “What’s your problem?”^[a]

“I’ve been a widowed woman^[b] ever since my husband died,” she answered. ⁶ “Your humble servant used to have two sons, but they got into a fight out in the field. Because there was no one to keep them apart, one of them attacked the other and killed him. ⁷ Now please pay attention closely! My^[c] whole family is attacking your humble servant! They’re saying, ‘Turn over the one who attacked his brother and we’ll put him to death in retribution for his brother, whose life he took. That way, we’ll kill the heir also!’ They’re going to extinguish the only light^[d] left in my family, leaving my late husband neither an ongoing name nor a survivor on the face of the earth!”