Then the king answered the woman, “Please don’t hide anything from me that I ask you.” The woman said, “Let my lord the king now speak.”
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Then the king answered the woman, “Please don’t hide anything from me that I ask you.” The woman said, “Let my lord the king now speak.”
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Then the king answered and said unto the woman, Hide not from me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall ask thee. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.
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Then the king answered and said unto the woman: 'Hide not from me, I pray thee, aught that I shall ask thee.' And the woman said: 'Let my lord the king now speak.'
Cross-references (3)
Passages linked to 2 Samuel 14:18 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Samuel 3:17-18 He said, “What is the thing that he has spoken to you? Please don’t hide it from me. God do so to you, and more also, if you hide anything from me of all the things that he spoke to you.” Samuel told him every bit, and hid nothing from him. He said, “It is Yahweh. Let him do what seems good to him.”
- Jeremiah 38:14 Then Zedekiah the king sent and took Jeremiah the prophet to himself into the third entry that is in Yahweh’s house. Then the king said to Jeremiah, “I will ask you something. Hide nothing from me.”
- Jeremiah 38:25 But if the princes hear that I have talked with you, and they come to you, and tell you, ‘Declare to us now what you have said to the king; don’t hide it from us, and we will not put you to death; also tell us what the king said to you;’
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Sa 14:18 Then the king answered and said unto…
2Sa 14:18 Then the king answered and said unto the woman, Hide not from me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall ask thee. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.
Ver. 18. Then the king answered and said.] Hitherto he had with great delight hearkened to her silken words: and now as smelling a plot, he desires therein to be satisfied. Neither was she to seek of an answer, but comes off truly and trimly, extolling the king’s singular sagacity.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Then the king answered and said unto the woman,....…
Then the king answered and said unto the woman,.... Understanding plainly what she meant by all this, that the case she brought was a feigned one, and that the intention of it was to let him know the sense of the people with respect to Absalom, and the recall of him:
hide not from me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall ask thee; he suspected that this was not a scheme of her own, but some considerable person had formed it, and made use of her to execute it, which was what he desired to know:
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and the woman said, let my lord the king now speak; ask what question he pleases, I am ready to answer.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 2Sa 14:18-19. The king said, Hide not from me,…
2Sa 14:18-19. The king said, Hide not from me, &c. — Observing the uncommon art and dexterity of her address in the management of this affair, the king immediately began to suspect it was a thing concerted between her and Joab, and asked, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? — Hast thou not said and done all this by his direction? The woman said, None can turn, &c. — That is, it is even so: thou hast discovered the truth: and I will not seek by any turnings or windings, this way, or the other, to dissemble the matter, but will plainly confess it. He put these words into the mouth of thy handmaid — As to the sense and substance of them, but not as to all the expressions, for these were evidently varied as the king’s answer gave occasion.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Please do not hide from me anything that I…
Please do not hide from me anything that I will ask you
The negative form here is used for emphasis and can be stated in a positive form. AT: "Please tell me the truth about everything I ask you" (See: Litotes)
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Is not the hand of Joab with you in all this
Here the word "hand" refers to Joab's influence. AT: "Has not Joab influenced you in all this" or "Did Joab send you here to speak these things" (See: Metonymy)
As you live
"As surely as you are alive." Here the woman compares the certainty of what David has said to the certainty that he is alive, to emphasize how true his statement is. (See: Idiom)
no one can escape to the right hand ... the king has spoken
Here the woman describes the difficulty of speaking to the king and keeping him from finding out the truth by comparing it to a person not being about to escape in any direction. AT: "no one can keep you from knowing the truth" (See: Metaphor)
to the right hand or to the left
The expression gives two extremes and means "anywhere." AT: "anywhere at all" or "anywhere" (See: Merism)
My master is wise
"My master the king is wise"
is wise, like the wisdom of an angel of God
The woman compares David's wisdom to the wisdom of an angel to emphasize how very wise he is. AT: "you are very wise, like an angel of God" (See: Simile)
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