2 Samuel 14:2 - Forerunner Commentary

2 Samuel 14:2

Absalom Returns to Jerusalem

1 So Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was concerned ^aabout Absalom.

2 And Joab sent to ^aTekoa and brought from there a wise woman, and said to her, “Please pretend to be a mourner, ^band put on mourning apparel; do not anoint yourself with oil, but act like a woman who has been mourning a long time for the dead.

3 Go to the king and speak to him in this manner.” So Joab ^aput the words in her mouth.

4 And when the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she ^afell on her face to the ground and prostrated herself, and said, ^b“Help, O king!”

5 Then the king said to her, “What troubles you?” And she answered, ^a“Indeed I am a widow, my husband is dead.

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Interlinear Bible for 2 Samuel 14:2:

And Joab
Yow'ab (#3097) sent
shalach (#7971) to Tekoah,
Tqowa` (#8620) and fetched
laqach (#3947) thence
min (#4480) a wise
chakam (#2450) woman,
'ishshah (#802) and said
'amar (#559) unto
'el (#413) her, I pray thee,
na' (#4994) feign thyself to be a mourner,
'abal (#56) and put on
labash (#3847) now
na' (#4994) mourning
'ebel (#60) apparel,
beged (#899) and anoint
cuwk (#5480) not
'al (#408) thyself with oil,
shemen (#8081) but be
hayah (#1961) as a woman
'ishshah (#802) that
zeh (#2088) had a long
rab (#7227) time
yowm (#3117) mourned
'abal (#56) for
`al (#5921) the dead:
muwth (#4191)

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