2 Samuel 14:4

And the woman of Tekoah speaks to the king, and falls on her face to the earth, and pays respect, and says, “Save, O king.”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And when the woman of Tekoah spake to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.

In Context

3and you have gone to the king, and spoken to him, according to this word”; and Joab puts the words into her mouth.

5And the king says to her, “What do you [want]?” And she says, “I [am] truly a widow woman, and my husband dies,

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Cross References

1 Samuel 25:23And Abigail sees David, and hurries and comes down from off the donkey, and falls on her face before David, and bows herself to the earth,

2 Samuel 14:22And Joab falls on his face to the earth, and pays respect, and blesses the king, and Joab says, “Today your servant has known that I have found grace in your eyes, my lord, O king, in that the king has done the word of his servant.”

Job 29:12For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, || And the fatherless who has no helper.

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 →

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