2 Samuel 14:3

The Darby Translation

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

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.

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.

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 And Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom. ² And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said to her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on mourning garments, I pray, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that hath a long time mourned for the dead; ³ and come to the king, and speak after this manner to him. And Joab put the words into her mouth. ⁴ And the woman of Tekoah spoke to the king, and she fell on her face to the ground and did obeisance, and said, Save, O king! ⁵ And the king said to her, What aileth thee? And she said, I am indeed a widow woman, and my husband is dead. ⁶ And thy bondmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other and slew him. ⁷ And behold, the whole family is risen against thy bondmaid, and they say, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may put him to death, for the life of his brother whom he killed; and we will destroy the heir also: so they will quench my coal which is left, and will not leave to my husband a name or remnant on the earth. ⁸ And the king said to the woman, Go to thy house, and I will give charge concerning thee. ⁹ And the woman of Tekoah said to the king, Upon me, my lord, O king, be the iniquity, and upon my father's house; and the king and his throne be guiltless. ¹⁰ And the king said, Whoever speaks to thee, bring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more.

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
And Jehovah rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven,

Numbers 34:12
and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and shall end at the salt sea. This shall be your land according to the borders thereof round about.

Deuteronomy 3:17
the plain also, and the Jordan, and [its] border from Chinnereth as far as the sea of the plain, the salt sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.

Joshua 3:16
the waters which flowed down from above stood [and] rose up in a heap, very far, by Adam, the city that is beside Zaretan; and those that flowed down towards the sea of the plain, the salt sea, were completely cut off. And the people went over opposite to Jericho.

Psalms 107:34
A fruitful land into a plain of salt, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

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).