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Then you must go to the king and speak to him according to this word.” Thus Joab put the words in her mouth.

So the Tekoite woman spoke to the king, and she fell on her face to the ground and did obeisance. She said, “Help me, O king!” Then the king asked her, “What do you want?”[a] And she said, “Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 14:5 Literally “What is for you”