2 Samuel 14:4

So the woman from Tekoa went to the king. She prostrated herself in front of him and then bowed down to him, and said, “Your Majesty, help me!”

Translation for Translators

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 go to the king, and tell him what I tell you to say.” Then Joab told her what to say [MTY] to the king.

5The king replied, “What is your problem?” She replied, “Please, sir, I am a widow. My husband died some time ago.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 25:23When Abigail saw David, she quickly got down from her donkey and bowed before him, with her face touching the ground.

2 Samuel 14:22Joab prostrated himself on the ground, and then he bowed down before the king, and asked God to bless him. Then Joab said, “Your Majesty, today I know that you are pleased with me, because you have agreed to do what I requested.”

Job 29:12because I had helped the poor people when they cried out for help and I aided/helped orphans who had no one else to help them.

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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