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2 Samuel 14:4-14

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4 Now when the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground and 1prostrated herself and said, "2Help, O king."
5 The king said to her, "What is your trouble?" And she answered, "Truly I am a widow, for my husband is dead.
6 "Your maidservant had two sons, but the two of them struggled together in the field, and there was no one to separate them, so one struck the other and killed him.
7 "Now behold, 3the whole family has risen against your maidservant, and they say, 'Hand over the one who struck his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed, 4and destroy the heir also.' Thus they will extinguish my coal which is left, so as to leave my husband neither name nor remnant on the face of the earth."
8 Then the king said to the woman, "Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you."
9 The woman of Tekoa said to the king, "O my lord, the king, 5the iniquity is on me and my father's house, but 6the king and his throne are guiltless."
10 So the king said, "Whoever speaks to you, bring him to me, and he will not touch you anymore *."
11 Then she said, "Please let the king remember the LORD your God, 7so that the avenger of blood will not continue to destroy, otherwise they will destroy my son." And he said, "8As the LORD lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground."
12 Then the woman said, "Please let your maidservant speak a word to my lord the king." And he said, "Speak."
13 The woman said, "9Why then have you planned such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring back 10his banished one.
14 "For 11we will surely die and are 12like water spilled on the ground which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away life, but plans ways so that 13the banished one will not be cast out from him.
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2 Samuel 14:4-14 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO SECOND SAMUEL 14

This chapter relates that Joab, perceiving David's inclination to bring back Absalom, employed a wise woman of Tekoah to lay before him a feigned case of hers, drawn up by Joab, whereby this point was gained from the king, that murder might be dispensed with in her case, 2Sa 14:1-20; which being applied to the case of Absalom, and the king finding out that the hand of Joab was in this, sent for him, and ordered him to bring Absalom again, though as yet he would not see his face, 2Sa 14:21-24; and after some notice being taken of the beauty of Absalom's person, particularly of his head of hair, and of the number of his children, 2Sa 14:25-27; it is related, that after two full years Absalom was uneasy that he might not see the king's face, and sent for Joab, who refused to come to him, till he found means to oblige him to it, who, with the king's leave, introduced him to him, 2Sa 14:28-33.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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Cross References 13

  • 1. 1 Samuel 25:23
  • 2. 2 Kings 6:26-28
  • 3. Numbers 35:19; Deuteronomy 19:12, 13
  • 4. Matthew 21:38
  • 5. Genesis 43:9; 1 Samuel 25:24
  • 6. 1 Kings 2:33
  • 7. Numbers 35:19, 21; Deuteronomy 19:4-10
  • 8. 1 Samuel 14:45; 1 Kings 1:52; Matthew 10:30
  • 9. 2 Samuel 12:7; 1 Kings 20:40-42
  • 10. 2 Samuel 13:37, 38
  • 11. Job 30:23; Job 34:15; Hebrews 9:27
  • 12. Psalms 58:7
  • 13. Num 35:15, 25, 28

Footnotes 5

  • [a] Many mss and ancient versions read "came"
  • [b] Lit "said"
  • [c] Lit "deliverer between"
  • [d] Lit "set"
  • [e] Lit "devices"
Scripture quotations taken from the (NASB®) New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. www.Lockman.org

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