2 Samuel 14:3

New Life Version

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

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 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 Joab the son of Zeruiah saw that the king missed Absalom very much. ² So Joab sent for a wise woman from Tekoa, and said to her, "Pretend to be filled with sorrow. Dress as if you were filled with sorrow, and do not pour oil on yourself. Dress like a woman who has been filled with sorrow for the dead many days. ³ Then go to the king and speak to him in this way." And Joab told her what to say. ⁴ When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, showing honor, and said, "Help, O king." ⁵ The king said to her, "What is your trouble?" And she answered, "I am a woman whose husband has died. ⁶ Your woman servant had two sons. But they fought together in the field and there was no one to pull them apart. So one hit the other and killed him. ⁷ Now the whole family has come against your woman servant. They say, ‘Give us the one who killed his brother. We must put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed.' So I would be without a son to receive what belonged to his parents when I die. They would put out the last of the fire which is left to me. My husband would be left without a name and with no children on the earth." ⁸ Then the king said to the woman, "Go to your house. I will say what should be done about your trouble." ⁹ The woman of Tekoa said to the king, "O my lord the king, the sin is on me and my father's family. But the king and his throne are without guilt." ¹⁰ The king said, "If anyone says anything to you, bring him to me. And he will not touch 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 poured fire from the heavens upon Sodom and Gomorrah.

Numbers 34:12
It will go down to the Jordan and end at the Salt Sea. This will be the sides all around your land.'"

Deuteronomy 3:17
I gave them the Arabah also, with the Jordan as its west side, from Chinnereth as far as the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, at the bottom of the hills of Pisgah on the east.

Joshua 3:16
Then the water flowing down from above stood and rose up in one place far away at Adam, the city beside Zarethan. The water flowing down toward the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, was all cut off. So the people crossed beside Jericho.

Psalms 107:34
He changes a land of much fruit into a salt waste because of the sin of those who live in it.

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).