2 Samuel 14:6

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Your servant has two sons. When the two of them got into a fight in the field, there was no one present who could intervene. One of them struck the other and killed him.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 4:8 : 8 Cain said to his brother Abel,“Let’s go out to the field.” While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.
  • Exod 2:13 : 13 When he went out the next day, there were two Hebrew men fighting. So he said to the one who was in the wrong,“Why are you attacking your fellow Hebrew?”
  • Deut 22:26-27 : 26 You must not do anything to the young woman– she has done nothing deserving of death. This case is the same as when someone attacks another person and murders him, 27 for the man met her in the field and the engaged woman cried out, but there was no one to rescue her.

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    7Now the entire family has risen up against your servant, saying,‘Turn over the one who struck down his brother, so that we can execute him and avenge the death of his brother whom he killed. In so doing we will also destroy the heir.’ They want to extinguish my remaining coal, leaving no one on the face of the earth to carry on the name of my husband.”

    8Then the king told the woman,“Go to your home. I will give instructions concerning your situation.”

  • 2 Sam 14:15-16
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    15I have now come to speak with my lord the king about this matter, because the people have made me fearful. But your servant said,‘I will speak to the king! Perhaps the king will do what his female servant asks.

    16Yes! The king may listen and deliver his female servant from the hand of the man who seeks to remove both me and my son from the inheritance God has given us!’

  • 2 Sam 14:5
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    5The king replied to her,“What do you want?” She answered,“I am a widow; my husband is dead.

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    19This woman’s child suffocated during the night when she rolled on top of him.

    20She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side, while your servant was sleeping. She put him in her arms, and put her dead son in my arms.

    21I got up in the morning to nurse my son, and there he was, dead! But when I examined him carefully in the morning, I realized it was not my baby.”

    22The other woman said,“No! My son is alive; your son is dead!” But the first woman replied,“No, your son is dead; my son is alive.” Each presented her case before the king.

    23The king said,“One says,‘My son is alive; your son is dead,’ while the other says,‘No, your son is dead; my son is alive.’”

    24The king ordered,“Get me a sword!” So they placed a sword before the king.

    25The king then said,“Cut the living child in two, and give half to one and half to the other!”

    26The real mother spoke up to the king, for her motherly instincts were aroused. She said,“My master, give her the living child! Whatever you do, don’t kill him!” But the other woman said,“Neither one of us will have him! Let them cut him in two!”

    27The king responded,“Give the first woman the living child; don’t kill him. She is the mother.”

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    28Then the king asked her,“What’s your problem?” She answered,“This woman said to me,‘Hand over your son; we’ll eat him today and then eat my son tomorrow.’

    29So we boiled my son and ate him. Then I said to her the next day,‘Hand over your son and we’ll eat him.’ But she hid her son!”

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    11She replied,“In that case, let the king invoke the name of the LORD your God so that the avenger of blood may not add to the killing! Then they will not destroy my son!” He replied,“As surely as the LORD lives, not a single hair of your son’s head will fall to the ground.”

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    11Look, my father, and see the edge of your robe in my hand! When I cut off the edge of your robe, I didn’t kill you. So realize and understand that I am not planning evil or rebellion. Even though I have not sinned against you, you are waiting in ambush to take my life.

    12May the LORD judge between the two of us, and may the LORD vindicate me over you, but my hand will not be against you.

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    18She asked Elijah,“Why, prophet, have you come to me to confront me with my sin and kill my son?”

  • Exod 1:16
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    16“When you assist the Hebrew women in childbirth, observe at the delivery: If it is a son, kill him, but if it is a daughter, she may live.”

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    27“Then your servant my father said to us,‘You know that my wife gave me two sons.

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    30So Joab and his brother Abishai killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel in Gibeon during the battle.

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    15Laws Concerning Children Suppose a man has two wives, one whom he loves more than the other, and they both bear him sons, with the firstborn being the child of the less loved wife.

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    19He said,“They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. I swear, as surely as the LORD is alive, if you had let them live, I would not kill you.”

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