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2 Samuel 14:18

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Then the king said to the woman, “I am going to ask you something; do not conceal it from me!” “Let my lord the king speak,” she replied.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Then the king answered and said unto the woman, Hide not from me, I pray thee, aught that I shall ask thee. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.

KJV

Then the king answered and said unto the woman, Hide not from me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall ask thee. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.

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This verse in 2 Samuel 14

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Hide not from me

on 2 Samuel 14:18-20

David sees through the performance and asks straight out, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this, and the woman confirms it without apology. Her closing flattery repeats the angel of God comparison from verse 17, now turned to praise the king's own perception of the very plot laid against him. Wesley notes that the substance of Joab's coaching held even where its exact wording bent to fit whatever the king said back, the mark of a genuinely wise performer rather than a fixed script.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

21 And the king said unto Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing: go therefore, bring the young man Absalom again. 22 And Joab fell to the ground on his face, and bowed himself, and thanked the king: and Joab said, To day thy servant knoweth that I have found grace in thy sight, my lord, O king, in that the king hath fulfilled the request of his servant.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman--The king was strongly attached to Absalom; and having now got over his sorrow for the violent death of Amnon, he was desirous of again enjoying the society of his favorite son, who had now been three long years absent.

The words behind it

20 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיַּ֣עַןand he answered

    vaiyaanH6030 →331 times

  • הַמֶּ֗לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙and he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הָ֣אִשָּׁ֔הthe woman

    haishahH802 →781 times

  • אַל־may not

    ʾal-H408 →724 times

  • נָ֨אplease

    na'H4994 →404 times

  • תְכַחֲדִ֤יyou hide

    tekhachadiH3582 →

  • מִמֶּ֙נִּי֙from me

    mimeniH4480 →1188 times

  • דָּבָ֔רanything

    davarH1697 →1440 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • אָנֹכִ֖יI

    ʾanokhiH595 →359 times

  • שֹׁאֵ֣ל[am] asking

    shoelH7592 →171 times

  • אֹתָ֑ךְ<obj.> you

    ʾotakhH853 →10935 times

  • וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙and she said

    vatomerH559 →5305 times

  • הָֽאִשָּׁ֔הthe woman

    haishahH802 →781 times

  • יְדַבֶּר־let him speak

    yedaber-H1696 →1141 times

  • נָ֖אplease

    na'H4994 →404 times

  • אֲדֹנִ֥יlord my

    ʾadoniH113 →333 times

  • הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃the king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

7 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 38:14

    Then King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and received him at the third entrance to the house of the LORD. “I am going to ask you something,” said the king to Jeremiah. “Do…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 21:1–2

      This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur son of Malchijah and the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah. They said,

    • Jeremiah 37:17

      Later, King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah and received him in his palace, where he asked him privately, “Is there a word from the LORD?” “There is,” Jeremiah replied. “You will be delivered into the…

    • 1 Kings 22:16

      But the king said to him, “How many times must I make you swear not to tell me anything but the truth in the name of the LORD?”

    • Jeremiah 42:2–5

      Jeremiah the prophet and said, “May our petition come before you; pray to the LORD your God on behalf of this entire remnant. For few of us remain of the many, as you can…

    • Jeremiah 42:20

      For you have deceived yourselves by sending me to the LORD your God, saying, ‘Pray to the LORD our God on our behalf, and as for all that the LORD our God says, tell…

  • Through

    Jeremiah 38:25

    If the officials hear that I have spoken with you, and they come and demand of you, ‘Tell us what you said to the king and what he said to you; do not hide…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 38:27

      When all the officials came to Jeremiah and questioned him, he relayed to them the exact words the king had commanded him to say. So they said no more to him, for no one…

    • Jeremiah 38:4–6

      Then the officials said to the king, “This man ought to die, for he is discouraging the warriors who remain in this city, as well as all the people, by speaking such words to…

About 2 Samuel

David Mourns the Death of Absalom, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
David Mourns the Death of Absalom, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
2 Samuel: the study guide →Read 2 Samuel 14 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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