2 Samuel 14:3-5

Easy-to-Read Version

³ Go to the king and talk to him using these words that I tell you.” Then Joab told the wise woman what to say.

⁴ Then the woman from Tekoa talked to the king. She bowed with her face to the ground. Then she said, “King, please help me!”

⁵ King David said to her, “What’s your problem?”

The woman said, “I am a widow. My husband is dead.