2 Samuel 14:5-7

English Standard Version

⁵ And the king said to her, “What is your trouble?” She answered, ^(A)“Alas, I am a widow; my husband is dead. ⁶ And your servant had two sons, and they quarreled with one another in the field. There was no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him. ⁷ And now the whole clan has risen against your servant, and they say, ‘Give up the man who struck his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed.’ And so they would ^(B)destroy the heir also. Thus they would quench my coal that is left and leave to my husband neither name nor ^(C)remnant on the face of the earth.”