2 Samuel 14:5 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁵ And the king said to her, “What is your trouble?” She answered, “Alas, I am a widow; my husband is dead.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ The king asked her, What troubles you? She said, I am a widow; my husband is dead.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, Of a truth I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

Common English Bible

⁵ “What is wrong?” the king asked her. “It’s terrible!” she said. “I am a widow; my husband is dead.

Catholic Public Domain Version

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ And the king said to her: What is the matter with thee? She answered: Alas, I am a widow woman; for my husband is dead.

2 Samuel 14:5 Cross References

Genesis 21:17

And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not; for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is.

Genesis 38:19

Then she arose and went away, and taking off her veil she put on the garments of her widowhood.

2 Samuel 14:4

When the woman of Tekoa came to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, “Help, O king.”

2 Samuel 14:6

And your handmaid had two sons, and they quarreled with one another in the field; there was no one to part them, and one struck the other and killed him.