2 Samuel 14:3

Bible in Basic English

And come to the king and say these words to him. So Joab gave her words to say.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Go to the king and speak these words to him.” Then Joab told her exactly what to say.

Hebrew Names Version
and go in to the king, and speak on this manner to him. So Yo'av put the words in her mouth.

King James Version
And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.

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

English Standard Version
Go to the king and speak thus to him." So Joab put the words in her mouth.

New Century Version
Then go to the king and say these words." Then Joab told her what to say.

New English Translation
Go to the king and speak to him in the following fashion." Then Joab told her what to say.

Amplified Bible
"Then go to the king and speak to him in this way." So Joab told her what to say.

New American Standard Bible
Then go to the king and speak to him in this way." So Joab put the words in her mouth.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And come to the King, and speake on this maner vnto him, (for Ioab taught her what she should say).

Legacy Standard Bible
then you shall go to the king and speak to him in this manner." So Joab put the words in her mouth.

Complete Jewish Bible
Go in to the king and speak to him in this fashion — " and then Yo'av told her just what to say.

Darby Translation
and come to the king, and speak after this manner to him. And Joab put the words into her mouth.

Easy-to-Read Version
Go to the king and talk to him using these words that I tell you." Then Joab told the wise woman what to say.

George Lamsa Translation
And come to the king and speak in this manner to him. So Joab prepared the words and put them in her mouth.

Good News Translation
Then go to the king and say to him what I tell you to say." Then Joab told her what to say.

Literal Translation
And you shall go to the king and speak with him according to this word. And Joab put the words into her mouth.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and thou shalt go in to the kynge, and speake for so vnto him. And Ioab tolde her what she shulde saye.

American Standard Version
and go in to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And come to the king, and speake on this maner vnto hym (And so Ioab taught her what she should say.)

JPS Old Testament (1917)
and go in to the king, and speak on this manner unto him.' So Joab put the words in her mouth.

King James Version (1611)
And come to the king, and speake on this maner vnto him: so Ioab put the words in her mouth.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And thou shalt go to the king, and speak to him according to this word. And Joab put the words in her mouth.

English Revised Version
and go in to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.

Berean Standard Bible
Then go to the king and speak these words to him." And Joab put the words in her mouth.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thou schalt entre to the kyng, and thou schalt speke to hym siche wordis. Sotheli Joab puttide the wordis in hir mouth.

Young's Literal Translation
and thou hast gone unto the king, and spoken unto him, according to this word;' and Joab putteth the words into her mouth.

Update Bible Version
and go in to the king, and speak on this manner to him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.

Webster's Bible Translation
And come to the king, and speak in this manner to him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.

World English Bible
and go in to the king, and speak on this manner to him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.

New King James Version
Go to the king and speak to him in this manner." So Joab put the words in her mouth.

New Living Translation
Then go to the king and tell him the story I am about to tell you." Then Joab told her what to say.

New Life Bible
Then go to the king and speak to him in this way." And Joab told her what to say.

New Revised Standard
Go to the king and speak to him as follows." And Joab put the words into her mouth.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
so shalt thou come in unto the king, and speak unto him, after this manner. And Joab put the words in her mouth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt go in to the king, and shalt speak to him in this manner. And Joab put the words in her mouth.

Revised Standard Version
and go to the king, and speak thus to him." So Jo'ab put the words in her mouth.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
then go to the king and speak to him in this manner." So Joab put the words in her mouth.

Contextual Overview

¹ Now it was clear to Joab, the son of Zeruiah, that the king's heart was turning to Absalom. ² And Joab sent to Tekoa and got from there a wise woman, and said to her, Now make yourself seem like one given up to grief, and put on the clothing of sorrow, not using any sweet oil for your body, but looking like one who for a long time has been weeping for the dead: ³ And come to the king and say these words to him. So Joab gave her words to say. ⁴ And the woman of Tekoa came to the king, and falling on her face, gave him honour and said, Give me help, O king. ⁵ And the king said to her, What is your trouble? And her answer was, Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead. ⁶ And I had two sons, and the two of them had a fight in the field, and there was no one to come between them, and one with a blow put the other to death. ⁷ And now all the family is turned against me, your servant, saying, Give up him who was the cause of his brother's death, so that we may put him to death in payment for the life of his brother, whose life he took; and we will put an end to the one who will get the heritage: so they will put out my last burning coal, and my husband will have no name or offspring on the face of the earth. ⁸ And the king said to the woman, Go to your house and I will give orders about this. ⁹ And the woman of Tekoa said to the king, My lord, O king, may the sin be on me and on my family, and may the king and the seat of his kingdom be clear of sin! ¹⁰ And the king said, If anyone says anything to you, make him come to me, and he will do you no more damage.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

put the words: 2 Samuel 14:19, Exodus 4:15, Numbers 23:5, Deuteronomy 18:18, Isaiah 51:16, Isaiah 59:21, Jeremiah 1:9

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 31:19 - put it in their Ezra 8:17 - I told them

Cross-References

Genesis 19:24
Then the Lord sent fire and flaming smoke raining down from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah.

Numbers 34:12
And so down to Jordan, stretching to the Salt Sea: all the land inside these limits will be yours.

Deuteronomy 3:17
As well as the Arabah, with the river Jordan as their limit, from Chinnereth to the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah to the east.

Joshua 3:16
Then the waters flowing down from higher up were stopped and came together in a mass a long way back at Adam, a town near Zarethan; and the waters flowing down to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were cut off: and the people went across opposite Jericho.

Psalms 107:34
He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And come to the king,.... At his palace, in the above condition and circumstances:

and speak on this manner unto him; something to the following purpose he dictated to her:

so Joab put the words in her mouth; the substance of what she should say; the fable she was to deliver as her own case might be framed by Joab, and which she delivered word for word exactly as he put it, and the application of it; but as he knew not what questions the king would ask her, so he could not dictate to her what to reply, unless he supposed this and the other, and so formed answers; but this he left to her prudence, and for the sake of which he chose a wise woman to manage this affair.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Come to the king - The king as a judge was accessible to all his subjects (2 Samuel 15:2; compare 1 Kings 3:16).