2 Samuel 14:8 The king said to the woman, "Go home, and I will issue an order in your behalf."

◄ 2 Samuel 14:8 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
The king said to the woman, "Go home, and I will issue an order in your behalf."

English Standard Version
Then the king said to the woman, “Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you.”

New American Standard Bible
Then the king said to the woman, "Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you."

King James Bible
And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I will give charge concerning thee.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The king told the woman, "Go home. I will issue a command on your behalf."

International Standard Version
Then the king replied to the woman, "Go home and I'll issue a special order just for you."

American Standard Version
And the king said unto the woman, Go to thy house, and I will give charge concerning thee.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the king said to the woman: Go to thy house, and I will give charge concerning thee.

Darby Bible Translation
And the king said to the woman, Go to thy house, and I will give charge concerning thee.

Young's Literal Translation
And the king saith unto the woman, 'Go to thine house, and I give charge concerning thee.'

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:7
And, behold, the whole family is risen against your handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the earth.

2 Samuel 14:9
And the woman of Tekoah 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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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

14:1-20 We may notice here, how this widow pleads God's mercy, and his clemency toward poor guilty sinners. The state of sinners is a state of banishment from God. God pardons none to the dishonour of his law and justice, nor any who are impenitent; nor to the encouragement of crimes, or the hurt of others.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

7. they shall quench my coal which is left—The life of man is compared in Scripture to a light. To quench the light of Israel (2Sa 21:17) is to destroy the king's life; to ordain a lamp for any one (Ps 132:17) is to grant him posterity; to quench a coal signifies here the extinction of this woman's only remaining hope that the name and family of her husband would be preserved. The figure is a beautiful one; a coal live, but lying under a heap of embers—all that she had to rekindle her fire—to light her lamp in Israel.