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2 Samuel 14:6

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14:6Your servant8 has two sons. When the two of them got into a fight in the field, there was no one present who could intervene. One of them struck the other and killed him.

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Footnotes

  1. 8 Here and elsewhere (vv. 7, 12, 15a, 17, 19) the woman uses a term which suggests a lower level female servant. She uses the term to express her humility before the king. However, she uses a different term in vv. 15b–16. See the note at v. for a discussion of the rhetorical purpose of this switch in terminology.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

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.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

I your servant had two sons. They got into a fight with each other in the field, and no one was there to separate them. One struck the other and killed him.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

“Your servant had two sons. They were fighting in the field with no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.

NLTNew Living Translation

My two sons had a fight out in the field. And since no one was there to stop it, one of them was killed.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Your servant had two sons, and they both fought in the open field, and there was no one to part them. One struck the other and killed him.

KJV 1900King James Version

And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and slew him.