2 Samuel 14:5-7

New International Reader's Version

⁵ The king asked her, “What’s bothering you?”

She said, “I’m a widow. My husband is dead. ⁶ I had two sons. They got into a fight with each other in a field. No one was there to separate them. One of my sons struck down the other one and killed him. ⁷ Now my whole family group has risen up against me. They say, ‘Hand over the one who struck down his brother. Then we can put him to death for killing his brother. That will also get rid of the one who will receive the family property.’ They want to kill the only living son I have left, just as someone would put out a burning coal. That would leave my husband without any son on the face of the earth to carry on the family name.”