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2 Samuel 14:4

Tekoa

2 So Joab sent to Tekoa to bring a wise woman from there. He told her, “Please pretend to be a mourner; put on clothes for mourning and do not anoint yourself with oil. Act like a woman who has mourned for the dead a long time.

3 Then go to the king and speak these words to him.” And Joab put the words in her mouth.

When the woman from Tekoa went to the king, she fell facedown in homage and said, “Help me, O king!”

5 “What troubles you?” the king asked her. “Indeed,” she said, “I am a widow, for my husband is dead.

6 And your maidservant had two sons who were fighting in the field with no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
When the woman from Tekoa went to the king, she fell facedown in homage and said, “Help me, O king!”
KJV
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.
WEB
When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, showed respect, and said, “Help, O king!”
ASV
And when the woman of Tekoa spake to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.
DARBY
And the woman of Tekoah spoke to the king, and she fell on her face to the ground and did obeisance, and said, Save, O king!
BLB
And the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, and she fell on her nose to the ground, and bowed low, and said, “Save [me], O king.”
ÅB
Og kvinnen fra Tekoa talte til kongen - hun kastet seg ned for ham med ansiktet mot jorden og sa: Hjelp, konge!
OTB
Da kvinnen fra Tekoa talte til kongen, falt hun på sitt ansikt til jorden og hyllet ham, og sa, “Hjelp meg, konge.”
B1930
Og kvinnen fra Tekoa talte til kongen - hun kastet sig ned for ham med ansiktet mot jorden og sa: Hjelp, konge!

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Cross references

  • 1 Samuel 25:23

    When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off the donkey, fell facedown, and bowed before him.

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  • 2 Kings 6:26–28

    As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”

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  • 2 Samuel 1:2

    On the third day a man with torn clothes and dust on his head arrived from Saul’s camp. When he came to David, he fell to the ground to pay him homage.

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  • Luke 18:3–5

    And there was a widow in that town who kept appealing to him, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’

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  • Job 29:12–14

    because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.

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  • 1 Samuel 20:41

    When the young man had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone, fell facedown, and bowed three times. Then he and Jonathan kissed each other and wept together—though David wept more.

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