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2 Samuel 14 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:1 - Now Yo'av the son of Tzeru'yah perceived that the king's heart was toward Avshalom.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:2 - Yo'av sent to Tekoa, and fetched there a wise woman, and said to her, please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, Please, and don't anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has a long time mourned for the dead:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:3 - and go in to the king, and speak on this manner to him. So Yo'av put the words in her mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:4 - When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:5 - The king said to her, What ails you? She answered, Of a truth I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:6 - Your handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:7 - Behold, the whole family is risen against your handmaid, 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 will they quench my coal which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the eretz.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:8 - The king said to the woman, Go to your house, and I will give charge concerning you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:9 - The woman of Tekoa said to the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house; and the king and his throne be guiltless.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:10 - The king said, Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall not touch you any more.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:11 - Then said she, Please let the king remember the LORD your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son. He said, As the LORD lives, there shall not one hair of your son fall to the eretz.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:12 - Then the woman said, Please let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king. He said, Say on.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:13 - The woman said, Why then have you devised 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 home again his banished one.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:14 - For we must needs die, and are as water split on the ground, which can't be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:15 - Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and your handmaid said, I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:16 - For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:17 - Then your handmaid said, Please let the word of my lord the king be comfortable; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: and the LORD your God be with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:18 - Then the king answered the woman, Please don't hide anything from me that I shall ask you. The woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:19 - The king said, Is the hand of Yo'av with you in all this? The woman answered, As your soul lives, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Yo'av, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:20 - to change the face of the matter has your servant Yo'av done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the eretz.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:21 - The king said to Yo'av, Behold now, I have done this thing: go therefore, bring the young man Avshalom back.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:22 - Yo'av fell to the ground on his face, and did obeisance, and blessed the king: and Yo'av said, Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord, king, in that the king has performed the request of his servant.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:23 - So Yo'av arose and went to Geshur, and brought Avshalom to Yerushalayim.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:24 - The king said, Let him turn to his own house, but let him not see my face. So Avshalom turned to his own house, and didn't see the king's face.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:25 - Now in all Yisra'el there was none to be so much praised as Avshalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:26 - When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year's end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king's weight.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:27 - To Avshalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a beautiful face.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:28 - Avshalom lived two full years in Yerushalayim; and he didn't see the king's face.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:29 - Then Avshalom sent for Yo'av, to send him to the king; but he would not come to him: and he sent again a second time, but he would not come.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:30 - Therefore he said to his servants, Behold, Yo'av's field is near mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire. Avshalom's servants set the field on fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:31

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:31 - Then Yo'av arose, and came to Avshalom to his house, and said to him, Why have your servants set my field on fire?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:32 - Avshalom answered Yo'av, Behold, I sent to you, saying, Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, Why am I come from Geshur? it were better for me to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there be iniquity in me, let him kill me.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:33 - So Yo'av came to the king, and told him; and when he had called for Avshalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king: and the king kissed Avshalom.
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2 Samuel Chapter 14 — Additional Translations:

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