2 Samuel 14:13

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Berkatalah perempuan itu: "Mengapa raja merancang hal yang demikian terhadap umat Allah? Oleh karena tuanku mengucapkan perkataan ini, maka tuanku sendirilah yang bersalah dengan tidak mengizinkan pulang orang yang telah dibuangnya.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Berkatalah perempuan itu: "Mengapa raja merancang hal yang demikian terhadap umat Allah? Oleh karena tuanku mengucapkan perkataan ini, maka tuanku sendirilah yang bersalah dengan tidak mengizinkan pulang orang yang telah dibuangnya.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka sembah perempuan itu: Betapa gerangan tuanku sengajakan perkara yang demikian atas segala umat Allah? karena dalam bertitah begitu tuanku juga seolah-olah orang yang bersalah, sebab tiada diberi tuanku orangnya yang terbuang itu datang kembali.

Contextual Overview

¹ Ioab ye sonne of Zaruia perceaued that the kynges heart was toward Absalom: ² And he sent to Thekoa, and fet thence a wyse woman, & sayde vnto her: I pray thee faine thy selfe to be a mourner, and put on mourning apparell, and annoynt not thy self with oyle, but be as a woman that had long tyme mourned for the dead: ³ And come to the king, and speake on this maner vnto hym (And so Ioab taught her what she should say.) ⁴ And when the woman of Thekoa spake with the king, she fell on her face to the grounde, and did obeysaunce, and sayde: Helpe, O king. ⁵ The king said vnto her: What ayleth thee? She aunswered: I am in deede a wydow, and myne husband is dead. ⁶ And thy hande mayde had two sonnes, and they two fought together in the fielde, where was no man to go betweene them, but the one smote the other, and slue him. ⁷ And beholde, the whole kindred is risen against thy handmayd, & they said: Delyuer hym that smote his brother, that we may kill him for the soule of his brother whom he slue, we will destroy the heyre also: And so they shall quenche my sparkle which is left, and shall not leaue to my husband neither name nor issue vpon the earth. ⁸ And the king sayde vnto the woman: Go home to thyne house, I wyll geue a charge for thee. ⁹ And the woman of Thekoa saide vnto the king: My lorde O king, this trespasse be on me and on my fathers house: and the king and his throne be giltlesse. ¹⁰ And the king saide: If any man say ought vnto thee, bring him to me, and he shall hurt thee no more.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Wherefore: 2 Samuel 12:7, 1 Kings 20:40-42, Luke 7:42-44

people: 2 Samuel 7:8, Judges 20:2

in that the king: 2 Samuel 13:37, 2 Samuel 13:38

Cross-References

Genesis 10:16
And Iebusi, and Emori, and Girgasi,

Genesis 14:24
Saue onlye that which the young men haue eaten, and the portions of the men which went with Aner, Eschol, & Mamre, which shal take their portios.

Genesis 39:14
She called vnto the men of her house, and tolde them, saying: See, he hath brought in an Hebrue vnto vs, to do vs shame: for he came in to me to haue lyen with me, and I began to crie with a loude voyce:

Genesis 40:15
For I was priuily by stealth taken away out of the lande of the Hebrewes: and here also haue I done nothyng at all wherfore they shoulde haue put me into this dungeon.

Genesis 41:12
And there was with vs a young man, an Hebrue borne, seruaunt vnto the chiefe stewarde: to whom when we tolde them, he declared our dreames to vs, accordyng to eyther of our dreames.

Genesis 43:32
And they prepared for hym by hym selfe, and for them by them selues, and for the Egyptians which dyd eate with him, by them selues, because the Egyptians may not eate bread with the Hebrewes: for that is an abhomination to the Egyptians.

Exodus 2:6
And when she had opened it, she sawe it was a chylde: and beholde, the babe wept. And she had compassion on it, and sayde: it is one of the Hebrues chyldren.

Exodus 2:11
And in those dayes, when Moyses was waxed great, he went out vnto his brethren, & loked on their burdens, and spyed an Egyptian smytyng an Hebrue which was one of his brethren.

Numbers 21:21
And Israel sent messengers vnto Sehon kyng of the Amorites, saying:

1 Samuel 4:12
And there ran a man of Beniamin out of the armie, and came to Silo the same day with his clothes rent, and earth vpon his head.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God?.... That they would be so wicked as to slay my son, or that they are the people of God that would slay Absalom; people so cruel could not be reckoned such, as the king's sons; so Abarbinel; who gives it as the sense of Ephodaeus, that by the people of God are meant Absalom, and his men; or Absalom only, one man being sometimes called people, Exodus 21:8; and she expostulates with the king how he could entertain such a thought, as to seek to take away his life, when he had so fully expressed himself in her case on behalf of her son, who had slain his brother; or rather the meaning is, why he should think of doing such a thing as this, so contrary to the will of the people of Israel, the people of God, who would be greatly offended and grieved at it; so contrary to their wishes, which were to see him fetched back from an Heathenish court and country, where he was in danger of being corrupted, and to be restored to his father's favour and to his country, that he might be upon the spot at his death, to succeed in the throne and kingdom; for the provocation that Absalom had to kill Amnon had greatly lessened the evil in the esteem of the people:

for the king doth speak this thing as one which is faulty: he contradicts and condemns himself, in swearing that her son who had killed his brother should not die, nor an hair of his head be hurt, but should be in the utmost safety; and yet he sought to put his own son to death for a like crime, as the next clause explains it:

in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished; meaning Absalom, who was in a foreign country, an exile, 2 Samuel 13:34, and in danger of falling into idolatry; not daring to come home, lest his father should order him to be put to death; and which he might justly fear he would, should he return without leave, since he sought not by any means to fetch him back.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 14:13. Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing — The woman, having now got the king's promise confirmed by all oath, that her son should not suffer for the murder of his brother, comes immediately to her conclusion: Is not the king to blame? Does he now act a consistent part? He is willing to pardon the meanest of his subjects the murder of a brother at the instance of a poor widow, and he is not willing to pardon his son Absalom, whose restoration to favour is the desire of the whole nation. Is that clemency to be refused to the king's son, the hope of the nation and heir to the throne, which is shown to a private individual, whose death or life can only be of consequence to one family? Why, therefore, dost thou not bring back thy banished child?