2 Samuel 14:8

Updated Bible Version

And the king said to the woman, Go to your house, and I will give charge concerning you.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The king told the woman, “Go home. I will issue a command on your behalf.”

Hebrew Names Version
The king said to the woman, Go to your house, and I will give charge concerning you.

King James Version
And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I will give charge concerning thee.

Lexham English Bible
Then the king said to the woman, "Go to your house, and I myself will give the command concerning you."

English Standard Version
Then the king said to the woman, "Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you."

New Century Version
Then the king said to the woman, "Go home. I will take care of this for you."

New English Translation
Then the king told the woman, "Go to your home. I will give instructions concerning your situation."

Amplified Bible
Then David said to the woman, "Go to your home, and I will give orders concerning you."

New American Standard Bible
Then the king said to the woman, "Go to your home, and I will issue orders concerning you."

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the King said vnto the woman, Go to thine house, and I wil giue a charge for thee.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then the king said to the woman, "Go to your house, and I will give a command concerning you."

Contemporary English Version
"Go on home," David told her. "I'll take care of this matter for you."

Complete Jewish Bible
The king said to the woman, "Go back home; I myself will decide what to do about you."

Darby Translation
And the king said to the woman, Go to thy house, and I will give charge concerning thee.

Easy-to-Read Version
Then the king said to the woman, "Go home. I will take care of things for you."

George Lamsa Translation
And the king said to her, Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you.

Good News Translation
"Go back home," the king answered, "and I will take care of the matter."

Literal Translation
And the king said to the woman, Go to your house, and I will give command concerning you.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The kynge sayde vnto the woman: Go ye waye home, I wil geue a comaudemet for ye.

American Standard Version
And the king said unto the woman, Go to thy house, and I will give charge concerning thee.

Bible in Basic English
And the king said to the woman, Go to your house and I will give orders about this.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the king sayde vnto the woman: Go home to thyne house, I wyll geue a charge for thee.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the king said unto the woman: 'Go to thy house, and I will give charge concerning thee.'

King James Version (1611)
And the king saide vnto the woman, Goe to thine house, and I will giue charge concerning thee.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the king said to the woman, Go in peace to thy house, and I will give commandment concerning thee.

English Revised Version
And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I will give charge concerning thee.

Berean Standard Bible
"Go home," the king said to the woman, "and I will give orders on your behalf."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the kyng seide to the womman, Go in to thin hows, and Y schal comaunde for thee.

Young's Literal Translation
And the king saith unto the woman, `Go to thine house, and I give charge concerning thee.'

Webster's Bible Translation
And the king said to the woman, Go to thy house, and I will give charge concerning thee.

World English Bible
The king said to the woman, Go to your house, and I will give charge concerning you.

New King James Version
Then the king said to the woman, "Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you."

New Living Translation
"Leave it to me," the king told her. "Go home, and I'll see to it that no one touches him."

New Life Bible
Then the king said to the woman, "Go to your house. I will say what should be done about your trouble."

New Revised Standard
Then the king said to the woman, "Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the king said unto the woman - Go to thy house, and, I, will give command concerning thee.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the king said to the woman: Go to thy house, and I will give charge concerning thee.

Revised Standard Version
Then the king said to the woman, "Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you."

THE MESSAGE
The king said, "Go home, and I'll take care of this for you."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the king said to the woman, "Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you."

Contextual Overview

¹ Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom. ² And Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched from there a wise woman, and said to her, I pray you, feign yourself to be a mourner, and put on mourning apparel, I pray you, and don't anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman that has a long time mourned for the dead: ³ and go in to the king, and speak on this manner to him. So Joab put the words in her mouth. ⁴ And when the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king. ⁵ And the king said to her, What ails you? And she answered, Of a truth I am a widow, and my husband is dead. ⁶ And your female slave had two sons, and both of them strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and killed him. ⁷ And, look, the whole family has risen against your female slave, and they say, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he slew, and so destroy the heir also. Thus they will quench my charcoal which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the face of the earth. ⁸ And the king said to the woman, Go to your house, and I will give charge concerning you. ⁹ And the woman of Tekoa said to the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house; and the king and his throne be innocent. ¹⁰ And the king said, Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall not touch you anymore.

Bible Verse Review
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Cross-References

Genesis 13:10
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the Plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.

Genesis 14:2
that they made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar).

Genesis 14:3
All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (the same is the Salt Sea).

Genesis 14:10
Now the valley of Siddim was full of slime pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and those that remained fled to the mountain.

Genesis 19:20
now see this city that is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there-isn't it a little one?-and my soul shall live.

Genesis 19:22
Hurry, escape there; for I can't do anything until you have come there. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the king said to the woman, go to thine house,.... Go home and make thyself easy:

and I will give charge concerning thee; intimating that he would inquire into her case; and if it was as she had represented it, he would give orders that she should not be disturbed, or be obliged to deliver up her son, and that he should be safe from those that sought his life.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will give charge ... - Indirectly granting her petition, and assenting that her son’s life should be spared.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 14:8. I will give charge concerning thee. — This would not do, it was too distant; and she could not by it bring her business to a conclusion: so she proceeds: -