2 Samuel 14:9

And the woman of Tekoah says to the king, “On me, my lord, O king, [is] the iniquity, and on the house of my father; and the king and his throne [are] innocent.”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And the woman of Tekoah said unto the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father’s house: and the king and his throne be guiltless.

In Context

8And the king says to the woman, “Go to your house, and I give charge concerning you.”

10And the king says, “He who speaks to you, and you have brought him to me, then he does not add to come against you anymore.”

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Cross References

Genesis 27:13and his mother says to him, “On me your disapproval, my son; only listen to my voice, and go, take for me.”

Deuteronomy 21:1“When one is found slain, fallen in a field on the ground which your God YHWH is giving to you to possess it, [and] it is not known who has struck him,

2 Samuel 3:28And David hears afterward and says, “My kingdom and I [are] acquitted by YHWH for all time, from the blood of Abner son of Ner;

Matthew 27:25and all the people answering said, “His blood [is] on us, and on our children!”

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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