2 Samuel 20:16

Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with thee.

Then cried {H7121} a wise {H2450} woman {H802} out of the city {H5892}, Hear {H8085}, hear {H8085}; say {H559}, I pray you, unto Joab {H3097}, Come near {H7126} hither, that I may speak {H1696} with thee.

Then a wise woman in the city shouted, "Listen! Listen! Please tell Yo'av, 'Come over here, so that I can speak with you.'"

a wise woman called out from the city, “Listen! Listen! Please tell Joab to come here so that I may speak with him.”

Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with thee.

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Cross-References

  • 2 Samuel 14:2 (5 votes)

    And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:

  • Ecclesiastes 9:14 (4 votes)

    [There was] a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:

  • Ecclesiastes 9:18 (4 votes)

    Wisdom [is] better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.

  • 1 Samuel 25:32 (3 votes)

    ¶ And David said to Abigail, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me:

  • 1 Samuel 25:33 (3 votes)

    And blessed [be] thy advice, and blessed [be] thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to [shed] blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.

  • 1 Samuel 25:3 (3 votes)

    Now the name of the man [was] Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and [she was] a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man [was] churlish and evil in his doings; and he [was] of the house of Caleb.