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2 Samuel 14:2

maka ia menyuruh orang ke Tekoa menjemput dari sana seorang perempuan yang bijaksana, lalu ia berkata kepada perempuan itu: "Berlakulah pura-pura berkabung, dan pakailah pakaian berkabung, janganlah berurap dengan minyak, dan berlakulah seperti seorang perempuan yang telah lama berkabung karena seorang mati.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Absalom;   Anointing;   David;   Dishonesty;   Intercession;   Joab;   Kindness;   Mourning;   Tact;   Tekoah;   Thompson Chain Reference - Dissimulation;   Duplicity;   Joab;   Simplicity-Duplicity;   Tekoah;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Anointing;   Dead, the;   Widows;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Absalom;   Tekoa;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Absalom;   Joab;   Oil;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Mediator, Mediation;   Widow;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Anoint;   Hair;   Mourn;   Oil;   Tekoa, Tekoah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Anoint;   Tekoa;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Burial;   Court Systems;   Grief and Mourning;   Hair;   Jonah;   Oil;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Anointing, Anointed;   Priests and Levites;   Samuel, Books of;   Tekoa;   Wisdom;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Oil ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Anointing;   Mourning;   Tekoa, Tekoah ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Absalom;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Anointing;   Mourning;   Oil;   Tekoa;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Hair;   Jo'ab;   Mourning;   Oil;   Teko'a,;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Anoint;   Anointing;   Apparel;   Feign;   Hair;   Oil;   Proverbs, Book of;   Samuel, Books of;   Tekoa;   Witch;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Anointing;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Absalom;   Ancestor Worship;   Anointing;   Mourning;   Tekoa;   Wisdom;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
maka ia menyuruh orang ke Tekoa menjemput dari sana seorang perempuan yang bijaksana, lalu ia berkata kepada perempuan itu: "Berlakulah pura-pura berkabung, dan pakailah pakaian berkabung, janganlah berurap dengan minyak, dan berlakulah seperti seorang perempuan yang telah lama berkabung karena seorang mati.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
maka disuruhkan Yoab ke Tekoa, dijemputnya dari sana seorang perempuan anu yang bijaksana, lalu katanya kepadanya: Hendaklah engkau pura-pura berdukacita, dan pakailah olehmu kain perkabungan; jangan engkau pakai minyak bau-bauan, melainkan hendaklah lakumu seperti orang yang dalam hal berkabung karena orang mati sudah beberapa hari lamanya;

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

to Tekoah: Tekoah was a city of Judah, situated, according to Eusebius and Jerome, twelve miles south of Jerusalem. Josephus says it was not far from the castle of Herodium; and Jerome - Prologue to Amos says it stood on a hill six miles south from Bethlehem. Dr. Poccocke places it at the same distance; and says there are still considerable ruins on the top of a hill, which is about half a mile long and a furlong broad. 2 Chronicles 11:6, 2 Chronicles 20:20, Nehemiah 3:5, Nehemiah 3:27, Jeremiah 6:1, Amos 1:1, Tekoa

mourning: 2 Samuel 11:26, Ruth 3:3, Psalms 104:15, Ecclesiastes 9:8, Matthew 6:17

Reciprocal: Genesis 38:19 - laid by her veil 2 Samuel 13:3 - Shimeah 2 Samuel 20:16 - General 2 Samuel 23:26 - Tekoite 1 Kings 14:2 - disguise thyself 1 Kings 20:31 - put sackcloth 1 Kings 20:38 - disguised 1 Kings 22:30 - disguised himself 1 Chronicles 2:24 - Tekoa Luke 7:46 - General Luke 20:20 - feign

Cross-References

Genesis 10:19
The border of the Chanaanites was from Sidon as thou commest to Gerar vnto Azah, and as thou goest vnto Sodoma and Gomorra, and Adama, and Seboim, euen vnto Lesa.
Genesis 13:10
And so Lot lyftyng vp his eyes, behelde all the countrey of Iordane, whiche was well watred euery where before the Lorde destroyed Sodome and Gomorrh, euen as the garden of the Lorde, lyke the lande of Egypt as thou commest vnto Soar.
Genesis 14:9
And they ioyned battell with them in the vale of Siddim: that is to saye, with Chodorlaomer the kyng of Elam, and with Thidal kyng of nations, and with Amraphel kyng of Sinar, and with Arioch kyng of Elasar, foure kynges agaynst fyue.
Genesis 14:10
And the vale of Siddim was full of slyme pyttes: and the kynges of Sodome and Gomorrhe fledde, and fell there, and they that remayned, fledde to the mountayne.
Genesis 14:20
And blessed [be] the high God, which hath deliuered thyne enemies vnto thy hande: and Abram gaue him tithes of all.
Deuteronomy 29:23
Howe all the lande is burnt vp with brimstone and salt, and that it is neither sowen, nor beareth, nor any grasse groweth therin, lyke as in the place of ye ouerthrowyng of Sodome, Gomor, Adama, and Zeboim, which the Lorde ouerthrewe in his wrath and anger.
Deuteronomy 34:3
And the south, and the playne of the valley of Iericho, the citie of palme trees [euen] vnto Zoar.
1 Samuel 13:18
And another companie turned the way to Bethoron: And the thirde companie turned to the way of the coast that is seene aboue ye valley of Zeboim toward the wildernesse.
Nehemiah 11:34
Hadid, Zeboim, Neballath,
Isaiah 15:5
Wo shall my heart be for Moabs sake, they shall flee vnto the citie of Zoar, which is lyke a faire young bullocke of three yere olde, for they shall all go vp to Luith weepyng: euen so by the way towarde Horonaim they shall make lamentation for their vtter destruction.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Joab sent to Tekoah,.... Which Kimchi says was a city in the tribe of Asher, and others in the tribe of Benjamin, but it seems rather to be in the tribe, of Judah, 2 Chronicles 11:5; according Jerom s, it was twelve miles from Jerusalem, though in another place t he says it was but nine; of this place was Amos, and some think u the woman after mentioned was his grandmother. It was proper to lay the scene of the affair to be proposed to the king at some distance, that it might not soon and easily be inquired into:

and fetched thence a wise woman; one much advanced in years, as Josephus says w, whose years had taught her wisdom by experience; a woman of good sense, and of a good address, apt at expression and reply, and knew how to manage an affair committed to her; and among other things, perhaps, was famous for acting the part of a mourner at funerals, for which sometimes women were hired; however, she was one that was talked of for her wisdom and prudence, and Joab having heard of her, sent for her as one for his purpose. The Jews x say, that Tekoah was the first place in the land of Israel for oil, and because the inhabitants were much used to oil, wisdom was found among them:

and said unto her, I pray thee feign thyself to be a mourner; a woman of a sorrowful spirit, and in great distress, and show it by cries and tears:

and put on now mourning apparel; black clothes, such as mourners usually wore:

and anoint not thyself with oil; as used to be done in times of feasting and rejoicing, to make them look smooth, and gay, and cheerful, and of which there might be much use at Tekoah, if so famous for oil:

but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead; her countenance pale and foul with weeping, her mourning clothes almost worn out, &c.

s Proem. in Amos, & Comment. in Jer. vi. 1. t De loc. Heb. in. voce "Elthei", fol. 91. B. u In Hieron. Trad. Heb. in 2 Reg. fol. 78. 1. w Antiqu. l. 7. c. 8. sect. 4. x T. Bab. Menachot, fol. 85. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Tekoah - In the south of Judah, six miles from Bethlehem, the modern Tekua. The rough, wild district was well suited for the lawless profession of the wise woman; it abounds in caves, as does the country near Endor.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 14:2. Joab sent to Tekoah — Tekoah, according to St. Jerome, was a little city in the tribe of Judah, about twelve miles from Jerusalem.

There are several circumstances relative to this woman and her case which deserve to be noticed:-

1. She was a widow, and therefore her condition of life was the better calculated to excite compassion.

2. She lived at some distance from Jerusalem, which rendered the case difficult to be readily inquired into; and consequently there was the less danger of detection.

3. She was advanced in years, as Josephus says, that her application might have the more weight.

4. She put on mourning, to heighten the idea of distress.

5. She framed a case similar to that in which David stood, in order to convince him of the reasonableness of sparing Absalom.

6. She did not make the similitude too plain and visible, lest the king should see her intention before she had obtained a grant of pardon. Thus her circumstances, her mournful tale, her widow's needs, her aged person, and her impressive manner, all combined to make one united impression on the king's heart. We need not wonder at her success. See Bishop Patrick.


 
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