2 Samuel 11:5

11:5 The woman conceived and then sent word to David saying, “I’m pregnant.”

2 Samuel 14:8

14:8 Then the king told the woman, “Go to your home. I will give instructions concerning your situation.” ¹ 

2 Samuel 14:12

14:12 Then the woman said, “Please permit your servant to speak to my lord the king about another matter.” He replied, “Tell me.”

2 Samuel 14:18

14:18 Then the king replied to the woman, “Don’t hide any information from me when I question you.” The woman said, “Let my lord the king speak!”

2 Samuel 17:20

17:20 When the servants of Absalom approached the woman at her home, they asked, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” The woman replied to them, “They crossed over the stream.” Absalom’s men ²  searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem. ³ 

2 Samuel 14:4

14:4 So the Tekoan woman went ⁴  to the king. She bowed down with her face to the ground in deference to him and said, “Please help me, ⁵  O king!”

2 Samuel 14:9

14:9 The Tekoan woman said to the king, “My lord the king, let any blame fall on me and on the house of my father. But let the king and his throne be innocent!”

2 Samuel 14:13

14:13 The woman said, “Why have you devised something like this against God’s people? When the king speaks in this fashion, he makes himself guilty, for the king has not brought back the one he has banished.

2 Samuel 17:19

17:19 His wife then took the covering and spread it over the top of the well and scattered some grain over it. No one was aware of what she had done.

2 Samuel 20:17

20:17 When he approached her, the woman asked, “Are you Joab?” He replied, “I am.” She said to him, “Listen to the words of your servant.” He said, “Go ahead. I’m listening.”

2 Samuel 20:22

20:22 Then the woman went to all the people with her wise advice and they cut off Sheba’s head and threw it out to Joab. Joab ⁶  blew the trumpet, and his men ⁷  dispersed from the city, each going to his own home. ⁸  Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 3:8

3:8 These words of Ish-bosheth really angered Abner and he said, “Am I the head of a dog that belongs to Judah? This very day I am demonstrating ⁹  loyalty to the house of Saul your father and to his relatives ¹⁰  and his friends! I have not betrayed you into the hand of David. Yet you have accused me of sinning with this woman today! ¹¹ 

2 Samuel 14:19

14:19 The king said, “Did Joab put you up to all of this?” ¹²  The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, there is no deviation to the right or to the left from all that my lord the king has said. For your servant Joab gave me instructions. He has put all these words in your servant’s mouth.

2 Samuel 20:21

20:21 That’s not the way things are. There is a man from the hill country of Ephraim named Sheba son of Bicri. He has rebelled ¹³  against King David. Give me just this one man, and I will leave the city.” The woman said to Joab, “This very minute ¹⁴  his head will be thrown over the wall to you!”

¹ tn Heb “concerning you.”

¹ tn Heb “they”; the referents (Absalom’s men) have been specified in the translation for clarity.

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¹ tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew mss in reading וַתַּבֹא (vattavo’, “and she went”) rather than the MT וַתֹּאמֶר (vatto’mer, “and she said”). The MT reading shows confusion with וַתֹּאמֶר later in the verse. The emendation suggested here is supported by the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, some mss of the Targum, and Vulgate.

² tn The word “me” is left to be inferred in the Hebrew text; it is present in the Syriac Peshitta and Vulgate.

¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Joab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “they”; the referent (Joab’s men) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Heb “his tents.”

¹ tn Heb “I do.”

² tn Heb “brothers.”

³ tn Heb “and you have laid upon me the guilt of the woman today.”

¹ tn Heb “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?”

¹ tn Heb “lifted his hand.”

² tn Heb “Look!”