2 Samuel 14:3

Contemporary English Version

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Go to the king and speak these words to him.” Then Joab told her exactly what to say.

Hebrew Names Version
and go in to the king, and speak on this manner to him. So Yo'av put the words in her mouth.

King James Version
And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.

Lexham English Bible
Then you must go to the king and speak to him according to this word." Thus Joab put the words in her mouth.

English Standard Version
Go to the king and speak thus to him." So Joab put the words in her mouth.

New Century Version
Then go to the king and say these words." Then Joab told her what to say.

New English Translation
Go to the king and speak to him in the following fashion." Then Joab told her what to say.

Amplified Bible
"Then go to the king and speak to him in this way." So Joab told her what to say.

New American Standard Bible
Then go to the king and speak to him in this way." So Joab put the words in her mouth.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And come to the King, and speake on this maner vnto him, (for Ioab taught her what she should say).

Legacy Standard Bible
then you shall go to the king and speak to him in this manner." So Joab put the words in her mouth.

Complete Jewish Bible
Go in to the king and speak to him in this fashion — " and then Yo'av told her just what to say.

Darby Translation
and come to the king, and speak after this manner to him. And Joab put the words into her mouth.

Easy-to-Read Version
Go to the king and talk to him using these words that I tell you." Then Joab told the wise woman what to say.

George Lamsa Translation
And come to the king and speak in this manner to him. So Joab prepared the words and put them in her mouth.

Good News Translation
Then go to the king and say to him what I tell you to say." Then Joab told her what to say.

Literal Translation
And you shall go to the king and speak with him according to this word. And Joab put the words into her mouth.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and thou shalt go in to the kynge, and speake for so vnto him. And Ioab tolde her what she shulde saye.

American Standard Version
and go in to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.

Bible in Basic English
And come to the king and say these words to him. So Joab gave her words to say.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And come to the king, and speake on this maner vnto hym (And so Ioab taught her what she should say.)

JPS Old Testament (1917)
and go in to the king, and speak on this manner unto him.' So Joab put the words in her mouth.

King James Version (1611)
And come to the king, and speake on this maner vnto him: so Ioab put the words in her mouth.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And thou shalt go to the king, and speak to him according to this word. And Joab put the words in her mouth.

English Revised Version
and go in to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.

Berean Standard Bible
Then go to the king and speak these words to him." And Joab put the words in her mouth.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thou schalt entre to the kyng, and thou schalt speke to hym siche wordis. Sotheli Joab puttide the wordis in hir mouth.

Young's Literal Translation
and thou hast gone unto the king, and spoken unto him, according to this word;' and Joab putteth the words into her mouth.

Update Bible Version
and go in to the king, and speak on this manner to him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.

Webster's Bible Translation
And come to the king, and speak in this manner to him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.

World English Bible
and go in to the king, and speak on this manner to him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.

New King James Version
Go to the king and speak to him in this manner." So Joab put the words in her mouth.

New Living Translation
Then go to the king and tell him the story I am about to tell you." Then Joab told her what to say.

New Life Bible
Then go to the king and speak to him in this way." And Joab told her what to say.

New Revised Standard
Go to the king and speak to him as follows." And Joab put the words into her mouth.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
so shalt thou come in unto the king, and speak unto him, after this manner. And Joab put the words in her mouth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt go in to the king, and shalt speak to him in this manner. And Joab put the words in her mouth.

Revised Standard Version
and go to the king, and speak thus to him." So Jo'ab put the words in her mouth.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
then go to the king and speak to him in this manner." So Joab put the words in her mouth.

Contextual Overview

¹ Joab knew that David couldn't stop thinking about Absalom, ²and he sent someone to bring in the wise woman who lived in Tekoa. Joab told her, "Put on funeral clothes and don't use any makeup. Go to the king and pretend you have spent a long time mourning the death of a loved one." Then he told her what to say. ⁴ The woman from Tekoa went to David. She bowed very low and said, "Your Majesty, please help me!" ⁵ David asked, "What's the matter?" She replied: My husband is dead, and I'm a widow. ⁶ I had two sons, but they got into a fight out in a field where there was no one to pull them apart, and one of them killed the other. ⁷ Now all of my relatives have come to me and said, "Hand over your son! We're going to put him to death for killing his brother." But what they really want is to get rid of him, so they can take over our land. Please don't let them put out my only flame of hope! There won't be anyone left on this earth to carry on my husband's name. ⁸ "Go on home," David told her. "I'll take care of this matter for you." ⁹ The woman said, "I hope your decision doesn't cause any problems for you. But if it does, you can blame me." ¹⁰ He said, "If anyone gives you any trouble, bring them to me, and it won't happen again!" ¹¹ "Please," she replied, "swear by the Lord your God that no one will be allowed to kill my son!" He said, "I swear by the living Lord that no one will touch even a hair on his head!"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

put the words: 2 Samuel 14:19, Exodus 4:15, Numbers 23:5, Deuteronomy 18:18, Isaiah 51:16, Isaiah 59:21, Jeremiah 1:9

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 31:19 - put it in their Ezra 8:17 - I told them

Cross-References

Genesis 19:24
and the Lord sent burning sulfur down like rain on Sodom and Gomorrah.

Numbers 34:12
then follow the Jordan River down to the north end of the Dead Sea. The land within those four borders will belong to you.

Joshua 3:16
the river stopped flowing, and the water started piling up at the town of Adam near Zarethan. No water flowed toward the Dead Sea, and the priests stood in the middle of the dry riverbed near Jericho while everyone else crossed over.

Psalms 107:34
flowing streams into scorched land, and fruitful fields into beds of salt.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And come to the king,.... At his palace, in the above condition and circumstances:

and speak on this manner unto him; something to the following purpose he dictated to her:

so Joab put the words in her mouth; the substance of what she should say; the fable she was to deliver as her own case might be framed by Joab, and which she delivered word for word exactly as he put it, and the application of it; but as he knew not what questions the king would ask her, so he could not dictate to her what to reply, unless he supposed this and the other, and so formed answers; but this he left to her prudence, and for the sake of which he chose a wise woman to manage this affair.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Come to the king - The king as a judge was accessible to all his subjects (2 Samuel 15:2; compare 1 Kings 3:16).