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4 And the woman of Tekoa went to the king, and she bowed down with her face to the ground and showed respect, and said, |Help, O king.| 5 And the king said to her, |What is your trouble?|And she replied, |Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead 6 And your servant had two sons, and they both fought together in the field, and there was no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him. 7 Look, the whole family has risen against your servant, and they say, ‘Give us the man who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed.’ Thus they would eliminate also the heir and the one ember I have left will be extinguished, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remnant on the face of the earth. 8 Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to the king, my lord, it is because the people have made me afraid: and your servant said, 'I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.' 2 Samuel 14:4-8, New Heart English Bible. Public domain.
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