3 And you shall enter to the king, and you shall speak words to him in this manner.' Then Joab put the words in her mouth.
4 And so, when the woman of Tekoa had entered to the king, she fell before him on the ground, and she reverenced, and she said, 'Save me, O king.'
5 And the king said to her, 'What problem do you have?' And she responded: 'Alas, I am a woman who is a widow. For my husband has died.
6 And your handmaid had two sons. And they quarreled against one another in the field. And there was no one there who would be able to stop them. And one struck the other, and killed him.
7 And behold, the whole family, rising up against your handmaid, said: 'Deliver him who struck down his brother, so that we may kill him for the life of his brother, whom he killed, and so that we may do away with the heir.' And they are seeking to extinguish my spark that is left, so that there may not survive a name for my husband, nor a remnant upon the earth.'
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