2 Samuel 14:5
World English Bible (WEB)
The king said to her, “What ails you?” She answered, “Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.
In context
3 Go in to the king and speak like this to him.” So Joab put the words in her mouth.
4 When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, showed respect, and said, “Help, O king!”
5 The king said to her, “What ails you?” She answered, “Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.
6 Your servant had two sons; and they both fought together in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other and killed him.
7 Behold, the whole family has risen against your servant, and they say, ‘Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.’ Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.”
2 Samuel 14:5 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- The king said to her, “What ails you?” She answered, “Truly I am a widow, and 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.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- “What troubles you?” the king asked her. “Indeed,” she said, “I am a widow, for 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.