2 Samuel 14:8

8 The king said to the woman, “Go home, and I will issue an order in your behalf.”

2 Samuel 14:8 in Other Translations

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

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

8 “Leave it to me,” the king told her. “Go home, and I’ll see to it that no one touches him.”

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

8 The king told the woman, "Go home. I will issue a command on your behalf."

2 Samuel 14:8 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 14:8

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.

2 Samuel 14:8 In-Context

6 I your servant had two sons. They got into a fight with each other in the field, and no one was there to separate them. One struck the other and killed him.

7 Now the whole clan has risen up against your servant; they say, ‘Hand over the one who struck his brother down, so that we may put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed; then we will get rid of the heir as well.’ They would put out the only burning coal I have left, leaving my husband neither name nor descendant on the face of the earth.”

8 The king said to the woman, “Go home, and I will issue an order in your behalf.”

9 But the woman from Tekoa said to him, “Let my lord the king pardon me and my family, and let the king and his throne be without guilt.”

10 The king replied, “If anyone says anything to you, bring them to me, and they will not bother you again.”

Cross References

• 1. 1 Samuel 25:35