2 Samuel 14:5
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
“What troubles you?” the king asked her. “Indeed,” she said, “I am a widow, for my husband is dead.
In context
3 Then go to the king and speak these words to him.” And Joab put the words in her mouth.
4 When the woman from Tekoa went to the king, she fell facedown in homage and said, “Help me, O king!”
5 “What troubles you?” the king asked her. “Indeed,” she said, “I am a widow, for my husband is dead.
6 And your maidservant had two sons who were fighting in the field with no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.
7 Now the whole clan has risen up against your maidservant and said, ‘Hand over the one who struck down his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of the brother whom he killed. Then we will cut off the heir as well!’ So they would extinguish my one remaining ember by not preserving my husband’s name or posterity on the earth.”
2 Samuel 14:5 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- “What troubles you?” the king asked her. “Indeed,” she said, “I am a widow, for my husband is dead.
- KJV King James Version
- And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.
- WEB World English Bible
- The king said to her, “What ails you?” She answered, “Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, Of a truth I am a widow, and my husband is dead.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And the king saith to her, 'What — to thee?' and she saith, 'Truly a widow woman [am] I, and my husband dieth,
- DBY Darby Translation
- And the king said to her, What aileth thee? And she said, I am indeed a widow woman, and my husband is dead.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And the king said to her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and my husband is dead.