2 Samuel 14:3-5

Revised Geneva Translation

³ “Go to the king and speak to him in this manner.” For Joab told her what she should say.

⁴ Then the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, and fell down on her face to the ground, and prostrated herself, and said, “Help, O king!”

⁵ Then the king said to her, “What is wrong?” And she answered, “I am indeed a widow, and my husband is dead.