These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
2 Samuel 14
Tanakh 33 verses
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Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s was toward .
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- 2 And Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her: ‘I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on mourning apparel, I pray thee, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead;
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and go in to the , and speak on this manner unto him.’ So Joab put the words in her mouth.
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And when the woman of Tekoa spoke to the , she fell on her to the ground, and prostrated herself, and said: ‘Help, O .’
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And the said unto her: ‘What aileth thee?’ And she answered: ‘Of a I am a widow, my husband being dead.
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And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and killed him.
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And, behold, the whole family is risen against thy handmaid, and they said: Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he slew, and so destroy the heir also. Thus will they quench my coal which is left, and will leave to my husband neither nor remainder upon the of the earth.’
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And the said unto the woman: ‘Go to thy house, and I will give charge concerning thee.’
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And the woman of Tekoa said unto the : ‘My lord, O , the iniquity be on me, and on my father’s house; and the and his throne be guiltless.’
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- 10 And the said: ‘Whosoever saith aught unto thee, bring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more.’
- 11 Then said she: ‘I pray thee, let the thy , that the avenger of destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son.’ And he said: ‘As liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.’
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Then the woman said: ‘Let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak a unto my lord the .’ And he said: ‘Say on.’
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And the woman said: ‘Wherefore then hast thou devised such a thing against the people of ? for in speaking this the is as one that is guilty, in that the doth not fetch home again his banished one.
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For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth respect any person; but let him devise means, that he that is banished be not an outcast from him.
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Numbers 35:28 Numbers 35:25 Numbers 35:15 Hebrews 9:27 Job 30:23 Job 34:15 Job 14:7-12 Psalm 79:3 Psalm 90:10 Job 14:14 Matthew 22:16 Psalm 22:14 Romans 2:11 Psalm 58:7 Deuteronomy 10:17 Psalm 90:3 Exodus 21:13 Ecclesiastes 3:19-20 Job 34:19 1 Peter 1:17 Isaiah 50:1-2 Ecclesiastes 9:5 Acts 10:34 Leviticus 26:40 2 Samuel 11:25 - 15 Now therefore seeing that I am come to speak this unto my lord the , it is because the people have made me afraid; and thy handmaid said: I will now speak unto the ; it may be that the will perform the request of his .
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For the will , to deliver his out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of .
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- 17 Then thy handmaid said: Let, I pray thee, the of my lord the be for my comfort; for as an of , so is my lord the to discern good and bad; and thy be with thee.’
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Then the answered and said unto the woman: ‘Hide not from me, I pray thee, aught that I shall ask thee.’ And the woman said: ‘Let my lord the now speak.’
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- 19 And the said: ‘Is the hand of Joab with thee in all this?’ And the woman answered and said: ‘As thy liveth, my lord the , none can turn to the right hand or to the left from aught that my lord the hath spoken; for thy Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thy handmaid;
- 20 to change the of the matter hath thy Joab done this thing; and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an of , to all things that are in the earth.’
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And the said unto Joab: ‘Behold now, I have granted this request; go therefore, bring the young man back.’
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And Joab fell to the ground on his , and prostrated himself, and blessed the ; and Joab said: ‘To-day thy knoweth that I have found favour in thy sight, my lord, O , in that the hath performed the request of thy .’
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So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought to .
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And the said: ‘Let him turn to his own house, but let him not see my .’ So turned to his own house, and saw not the king’s .
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Now in all there was none to be so much praised as for his beauty; from the sole of his foot even to the of his head there was no blemish in him.
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And when he polled his head—now it was at every year’s end that he polled it; because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it—he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king’s weight.
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And unto there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose was Tamar; she was a woman of a fair countenance.
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- 28 And dwelt two full years in ; and he saw not the kings .
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Then sent for Joab, to send him to the ; but he would not come to him; and he sent again a second time, but he would not come.
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Therefore he said unto his servants: ‘See, Joab’s field is near mine, and he hath barley there; go and set it on fire.’ And Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.
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- 31 Then Joab arose, and came to unto his house, and said unto him: ‘Wherefore have thy servants set my field on fire?’
- 32 And answered Joab: ‘Behold, I sent unto thee, saying: Come hither, that I may send thee to the , to say: Wherefore am I come from Geshur? it were better for me to be there still; now therefore let me see the king’s ; and if there be iniquity in me, let him kill me.’
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So Joab came to the , and told him; and when he had called for , he came to the , and bowed himself on his to the ground before the ; and the kissed .
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