2 Samuel 14:5

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2 Samuel 14:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible

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 facedown in homage and said, “Help me, O king!”

5 “What troubles you?” the king asked her. “Indeed,” she said, “I am a widow, for my husband is dead.

6 And your maidservant had two sons who were fighting in the field with no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.

7 Now the whole clan has risen up against your maidservant and said, ‘Hand over the one who struck down his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of the brother whom he killed. Then we will cut off the heir as well!’ So they would extinguish my one remaining ember by not preserving my husband’s name or posterity on the earth.”

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2 Samuel 12:1

Then the LORD sent Nathan to David, and when he arrived, he said, “There were two men in a certain city, one rich and the other poor.

2 Samuel 12:2

The rich man had a great number of sheep and cattle,

2 Samuel 12:3

but the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food and drank from his cup; it slept in his arms and was like a daughter to him.

Judges 9:8

One day the trees set out to anoint a king for themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’

Judges 9:9

But the olive tree replied, ‘Should I stop giving my oil that honors both God and man, to hold sway over the trees?’

Judges 9:10

Then the trees said to the fig tree, ‘Come and reign over us.’

Judges 9:11

But the fig tree replied, ‘Should I stop giving my sweetness and my good fruit, to hold sway over the trees?’

Judges 9:12

Then the trees said to the grapevine, ‘Come and reign over us.’

Judges 9:13

But the grapevine replied, ‘Should I stop giving my wine that cheers both God and man, to hold sway over the trees?’

Judges 9:14

Finally all the trees said to the thornbush, ‘Come and reign over us.’

Judges 9:15

But the thornbush replied, ‘If you really are anointing me as king over you, come and find refuge in my shade. But if not, may fire come out of the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon.’