2 Samuel 14:4
And when the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and prostrated herself, and said: 'Help, O king.'
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
3and go in to the king, and speak on this manner unto him.' So Joab put the words in her mouth.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:23And when Abigail saw David, she made haste, and alighted from her ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed down to the ground.
2 Samuel 14:22And Joab fell to the ground on his face, and prostrated himself, and blessed the king; and Joab said: 'To-day thy servant knoweth that I have found favour in thy sight, my lord, O king, in that the king hath performed the request of thy servant.'
Job 29:12Because I delivered the poor that cried, the fatherless also, that had none to help him.
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 14:2-21
Joab's Stratagem in Absalom's Favour; The Art of Joab. ( b. c. 1029.) 1 Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom. 2 And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead: 3 And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab put the words in her mouth. 4 And when the woman… Read the whole commentary →