The king said to her, “What do you want?” She replied: “Alas, I am a widow; my husband is dead.
God heard the boy’s voice, and God’s angel called to Hagar from heaven: “What is the matter, Hagar? Do not fear; God has heard the boy’s voice in this plight of his.
After she got up and went away, she took off her shawl and put on her widow’s garments again.
So the woman of Tekoa went to the king and fell to the ground in homage, saying, “Help, O king!”
Your servant had two sons, who quarreled in the field, with no one to part them, and one of them struck his brother and killed him.