²⁶ As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”

⁴ When the woman from Tekoa went^[a] to the king, she fell with her face to the ground to pay him honor, and she said, “Help me, Your Majesty!”

²⁸ shouting, “Fellow Israelites, help us! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people and our law and this place. And besides, he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.”^(A)

³ And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice^(A) against my adversary.’