2 Samuel 14:8

World English Bible (2000)

The king said to the woman, "Go to your house, and I will give a command concerning you."

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  • 2 Sam 12:5-6 : 5 David's anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, "As Yahweh lives, the man who has done this is worthy to die! 6 He shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity!"
  • 2 Sam 16:4 : 4 Then the king said to Ziba, "Behold, all that pertains to Mephibosheth is yours." Ziba said, "I do obeisance. Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, O king."
  • Job 29:16 : 16 I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out.
  • Prov 18:13 : 13 He who gives answer before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.
  • Isa 11:3-4 : 3 His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears; 4 but with righteousness he will judge the poor, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.

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  • 2 Sam 14:9-13
    5 verses
    82%

    9 The woman of Tekoa said to 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."

    10 The king said, "Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall not touch you any more."

    11 Then she said, "Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son." He said, "As Yahweh lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth."

    12 Then the woman said, "Please let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king." He said, "Say on."

    13 The woman said, "Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished one.

  • 2 Sam 14:2-7
    6 verses
    79%

    2 Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched there a wise woman, and said to her, "Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don't anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.

    3 Go in to the king, and speak like this to him." So Joab put the words in her mouth.

    4 When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, "Help, O king!"

    5 The king said to her, "What ails you?" She answered, "Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

    6 Your handmaid had two sons, and they both fought together in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him.

    7 Behold, the whole family has risen against your handmaid, and they say, 'Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.' Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth."

  • 2 Sam 14:15-19
    5 verses
    78%

    15 Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and your handmaid said, 'I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.'

    16 For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

    17 Then your handmaid said, 'Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.'"

    18 Then the king answered the woman, "Please don't hide anything from me that I ask you." The woman said, "Let my lord the king now speak."

    19 The king said, "Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?" The woman answered, "As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab, he urged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid;

  • 2 Kgs 8:6
    75%

    6 When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to her a certain officer, saying, "Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now."

  • 2 Sam 15:9
    73%

    9 The king said to him, "Go in peace." So he arose, and went to Hebron.

  • 2 Kgs 8:3
    73%

    3 It happened at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines. Then she went forth to cry to the king for her house and for her land.

  • 1 Kgs 2:18
    72%

    18 Bathsheba said, "Alright. I will speak for you to the king."

  • 2 Kgs 4:13
    71%

    13 He said to him, "Say now to her, 'Behold, you have cared for us with all this care. What is to be done for you? Would you like to be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the army?'" She answered, "I dwell among my own people."

  • 2 Sam 12:8
    71%

    8 I gave you your master's house, and your master's wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that would have been too little, I would have added to you many more such things.

  • 2 Sam 15:20
    71%

    20 Whereas you came but yesterday, should I this day make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you."

  • 2 Sam 19:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7 Now therefore arise, go out, and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don't go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now."

    8 Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. They told to all the people, saying, "Behold, the king is sitting in the gate." All the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his tent.

  • 2 Sam 14:24
    71%

    24 The king said, "Let him return to his own house, but let him not see my face." So Absalom returned to his own house, and didn't see the king's face.

  • 2 Sam 13:13
    71%

    13 I, where would I carry my shame? And as for you, you will be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from you."

  • 1 Kgs 2:14
    70%

    14 He said moreover, I have something to tell you." She said, "Say on."

  • 2 Sam 13:17
    70%

    17 Then he called his servant who ministered to him, and said, "Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her."

  • 2 Sam 14:21
    70%

    21 The king said to Joab, "Behold now, I have done this thing. Go therefore, bring the young man Absalom back."

  • 1 Kgs 20:40
    70%

    40 As your servant was busy here and there, he was gone." The king of Israel said to him, "So your judgment shall be; yourself have decided it."

  • 2 Sam 15:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    15 The king's servants said to the king, "Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king chooses."

    16 The king went forth, and all his household after him. The king left ten women, who were concubines, to keep the house.

  • 2 Sam 19:38
    70%

    38 The king answered, "Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good to you. Whatever you require of me, that I will do for you."

  • 1 Sam 25:35
    70%

    35 So David received of her hand that which she had brought him: and he said to her, "Go up in peace to your house. Behold, I have listened to your voice, and have granted your request."

  • 1 Kgs 2:36
    70%

    36 The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, "Build yourself a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and don't go out from there anywhere.

  • Gen 24:38
    70%

    38 but you shall go to my father's house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.'

  • 1 Sam 22:16
    70%

    16 The king said, "You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father's house."

  • 1 Kgs 3:27
    70%

    27 Then the king answered, "Give her the living child, and in no way kill it. She is its mother."

  • 1 Kgs 1:13-14
    2 verses
    70%

    13 Go in to king David, and tell him, 'Didn't you, my lord, king, swear to your handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? Why then does Adonijah reign?'

    14 Behold, while you yet talk there with the king, I also will come in after you, and confirm your words."

  • 2 Kgs 9:34
    70%

    34 When he was come in, he ate and drink; and he said, "See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king's daughter."

  • Jer 22:1
    69%

    1 Thus said Yahweh: Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,

  • 2 Sam 18:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

    4 The king said to them, "I will do what seems best to you." The king stood beside the gate, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.

    5 The king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, "Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom." All the people heard when the king commanded all the captains concerning Absalom.

  • 1 Sam 25:28
    69%

    28 Please forgive the trespass of your handmaid. For Yahweh will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights the battles of Yahweh; and evil shall not be found in you all your days.

  • 2 Sam 14:32
    69%

    32 Absalom answered Joab, "Behold, I sent to you, saying, 'Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, "Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me."'"

  • 1 Kgs 3:17
    69%

    17 The one woman said, "Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house.

  • 2 Sam 18:30
    69%

    30 The king said, "Turn aside, and stand here." He turned aside, and stood still.