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2 Samuel 14:3
3Then go to the king and speak these words to him.” And Joab put the words in her mouth.
2 Samuel 14:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Go to the king and speak thus to him." So Joab put the words in her mouth.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Go to the king and speak to him in this manner.” So Joab put the words in her mouth.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Then go to the king and tell him the story I am about to tell you.” Then Joab told her what to say.
Context of 2 Samuel 14:3
1Joab son of Zeruiah knew that the king’s heart longed for Absalom. 2So Joab sent someone to Tekoa and had a wise woman brought from there. He said to her, “Pretend you are in mourning. Dress in mourning clothes, and don’t use any cosmetic lotions. Act like a woman who has spent many days grieving for the dead. Then 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 with her face to the ground to pay him honor, and she said, “Help me, Your Majesty!” 5The king asked her, “What is troubling you?” She said, “I am a widow; my husband is dead.
Read all of 2 Samuel 142 Samuel 14:3 word by word
וּבָאת֙ אֶל־הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ וְדִבַּ֥רְתְּ אֵלָ֖יו כַּדָּבָ֣ר הַזֶּ֑ה וַיָּ֧שֶׂם יוֹאָ֛ב אֶת־הַדְּבָרִ֖ים בְּפִֽיהָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for 2 Samuel 14:3
- 2 Samuel 14:19The king asked, “Isn’t the hand of Joab with you in all this?” The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything my lord the king says. Yes, it was your servant Joab who instructed me to do this and who put all these words into the mouth of your servant.
- Exodus 4:15You shall speak to him and put words in his mouth; I will help both of you speak and will teach you what to do.
- Numbers 23:5The Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth and said, “Go back to Balak and give him this word.”
- Deuteronomy 18:18I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites, and I will put my words in his mouth. He will tell them everything I command him.
- Isaiah 51:16I have put my words in your mouth and covered you with the shadow of my hand— I who set the heavens in place, who laid the foundations of the earth, and who say to Zion, ‘You are my people.’ ”
- Isaiah 59:21“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the Lord. “My Spirit, who is on you, will not depart from you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will always be on your lips, on the lips of your children and on the lips of their descendants—from this time on and forever,” says the Lord.
- Jeremiah 1:9Then the Lord reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, “I have put my words in your mouth.
Commentaries on 2 Samuel 14:3
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3Come to the king - The king as a judge was accessible to all his subjects (2 Samuel 15:2; compare 1 Kings 3:16).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-212Sa 14:1-21. Joab Instructs a Woman of Tekoah. 2-21. And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman--The king was strongly attached to Absalom; and having now got over his sorrow for the violent death of Amnon, he was desirous of again enjoying the society of his favorite son, who had now been three long years absent. But a dread of public opinion and a regard to the public interests made him hesitate about recalling or pardoning his guilty son…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 2 Samuel 14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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