2 Samuel 14:5-7

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁵ The king asked her, “What is your trouble?” She answered, “Alas, I am a widow; my husband is dead. ⁶ Your servant had two sons, and they fought with one another in the field; there was no one to part them, and one struck the other and killed him. ⁷ Now the whole family has risen against your servant. They say, ‘Give up the man who struck his brother, so that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he murdered, even if we destroy the heir as well.’ Thus they would quench my one remaining ember, and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant on the face of the earth.”