5The king asked her, "What is troubling you?" She said, "I am indeed a widow; my husband is dead.


In Context

2 So Joab sent someone to Tekoa and had a wise woman brought from there. He said to her, "Pretend you are in mourning. Dress in mourning clothes, and don't use any cosmetic lotions. Act like a woman who has spent many days grieving for the dead.

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

4 When the woman from Tekoa went to the king, she fell with her face to the ground to pay him honor, and she said, "Help me, O king!"

5 The king asked her, "What is troubling you?" She said, "I am indeed a widow; my husband is dead.

6 I your servant had two sons. They got into a fight with each other in the field, and no one was there to separate them. One struck the other and killed him.

7 Now the whole clan has risen up against your servant; they say, 'Hand over the one who struck his brother down, so that we may put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed; then we will get rid of the heir as well.' They would put out the only burning coal I have left, leaving my husband neither name nor descendant on the face of the earth."

2nd Samuel 14:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:5And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I [am] indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

14:5And the king said to her: What is the matter with thee? She answered: Alas, I am a widow woman: for my husband is dead.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

14:5And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, Of a truth I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:5And the king said to her, What aileth thee? And she said, I am indeed a widow woman, and my husband is dead.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

14:5And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered; Of a truth I am a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:5And the king said to her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and my husband is dead.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:5The king said to her, |What ails you?| She answered, |Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

14:5And the king saith to her, 'What — to thee?' and she saith, 'Truly a widow woman am I, and my husband dieth,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:5And the king said to her, What ails you? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and my husband is dead.