³ At the end of the seven years, when the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, she set out to appeal to the king for her house and her land.

³ In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Grant me justice against my accuser.’ ⁴ For a while he refused, but later he said to himself, ‘Though I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone, ⁵ yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will grant her justice, so that she may not wear me out by continually coming.’ ”^[a]

⁶ When the king questioned the woman, she told him. So the king appointed an official for her, saying, “Restore all that was hers, together with all the revenue of the fields from the day that she left the land until now.”

²⁶ Now as the king of Israel was walking on the city wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help, my lord king!”

¹³ He said to him, “Say to her: Since you have taken all this trouble for us, what may be done for you? Would you have a word spoken on your behalf to the king or to the commander of the army?” She answered, “I live among my own people.”

⁴ When the woman of Tekoa came^[a] to the king, she fell on her face to the ground and did obeisance and said, “Help, O king!”^(A)