4. When the woman from Tekoa approached the king, she bowed with her face to the ground in deep respect and cried out, “O king! Help me!”
5. “What’s the trouble?” the king asked.“Alas, I am a widow!” she replied. “My husband is dead.
6. My two sons had a fight out in the field. And since no one was there to stop it, one of them was killed.
7. Now the rest of the family is demanding, ‘Let us have your son. We will execute him for murdering his brother. He doesn’t deserve to inherit his family’s property.’ They want to extinguish the only coal I have left, and my husband’s name and family will disappear from the face of the earth.”