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The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

2 Samuel 14:3

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Absalom;   David;   Dishonesty;   Intercession;   Joab;   Kindness;   Tact;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Absalom;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Joab;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Mediator, Mediation;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Court Systems;   Jonah;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Priests and Levites;   Samuel, Books of;   Wisdom;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Absalom;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Jo'ab;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Mouth;   Revelation;   Samuel, Books of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Absalom;  

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.
Bible in Basic English
And come to the king and say these words to him. So Joab gave her words to say.
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.
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

1Now Joab son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart longed for Absalom. 2So 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. 3Then go to the king and speak these words to him." And Joab put the words in her mouth.4When 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. 6And 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. 7Now the whole clan has risen up against your maidservant and said, 'Hand over the one who struck down his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of the brother whom he killed. Then we will cut off the heir as well!' So they would extinguish my one remaining ember by not preserving my husband's name or posterity on the earth." 8"Go home," the king said to the woman, "and I will give orders on your behalf." 9But the woman of Tekoa said to the king, "My lord the king, may any blame be on me and my father's house, and may the king and his throne be guiltless." 10"If anyone speaks to you," said the king, "bring him to me, and he will not trouble you again!"

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 rained down brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah-from the LORD out of the heavens.
Numbers 34:12
Then the border will go down along the Jordan and end at the Salt Sea. This will be your land, defined by its borders on all sides."
Deuteronomy 3:17
The Jordan River in the Arabah bordered it from Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) with the slopes of Pisgah to the east.
Joshua 3:16
the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.
Psalms 107:34
and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.

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).


 
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