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2 Samuel 14:8
2 Samuel 14:8 is verse 8 of 2 Samuel chapter 14, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
“Go home,” the king said to the woman, “and I will give orders on your behalf.”
King James Version
And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I will give charge concerning thee.
World English Bible
The king said to the woman, “Go to your house, and I will give a command concerning you.”
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2 Samuel 14:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible
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.”
8 “Go home,” the king said to the woman, “and I will give orders on your behalf.”
9 But the woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord the king, may any blame be on me and on my father’s house, and may the king and his throne be guiltless.”
10 “If anyone speaks to you,” said the king, “bring him to me, and he will not trouble you again!”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
2 Samuel 12:5David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan: “As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die!
2 Samuel 12:6Because he has done this thing and has shown no pity, he must pay for the lamb four times over.”
2 Samuel 16:4So the king said to Ziba, “All that belongs to Mephibosheth is now yours!” “I humbly bow before you,” said Ziba. “May I find favor in your eyes, my lord the king!”
Job 29:16I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.
Proverbs 18:13He who answers a matter before he hears it— this is folly and disgrace to him.
Isaiah 11:3And He will delight in the fear of the LORD. He will not judge by what His eyes see, and He will not decide by what His ears hear,
Isaiah 11:4but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the wicked with the breath of His lips.