Discovery Box2 Samuel 13:16 
Context13:16 But she said to him, “No I won’t, for sending me away now would be worse than what you did to me earlier!” 1 But he refused to listen to her.
2 Samuel 14:16
Context14:16 Yes! 2 The king may 3 listen and deliver his female servant 4 from the hand of the man who seeks to remove 5 both me and my son from the inheritance God has given us!’ 6
2 Samuel 20:17
Context20:17 When he approached her, the woman asked, “Are you Joab?” He replied, “I am.” She said to him, “Listen to the words of your servant.” He said, “Go ahead. I’m listening.”
1 tn Heb “No, because this great evil is [worse] than the other which you did with me, by sending me away.” Perhaps the broken syntax reflects her hysteria and outrage.
2 tn Or “for.”
3 tn Or “will.” The imperfect verbal form can have either an indicative or modal nuance. The use of “perhaps” in v. 15b suggests the latter here.
4 tn Heb “in order to deliver his maid.”
5 tn Heb “destroy.”
6 tn Heb “from the inheritance of God.” The expression refers to the property that was granted to her family line in the division of the land authorized by God.
