2 Samuel 14:8

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

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 And your servant had two sons, and they quarreled with one another in the field. There was no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.

7 And now the whole clan has risen against your servant, and they say, ‘Give up the man who struck his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed. ’ And so they would destroy the heir also. Thus they would quench my coal that is left and leave to 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 And the woman of Tekoa said to the king, “On me be the guilt, my lord the king, and on my father’s house; let the king and his throne be guiltless. ”

10 The king said, “If anyone says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall never touch you again. ”