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1
Now Joab
the son
of Zeruiah
perceived
that the king's
heart
was inclined toward
Absalom.
2
So Joab
sent
to Tekoa
and brought
a wise
woman
from there
and said
to her, "Please
pretend
to be a mourner,
and put
on mourning
garments
now,
and do not anoint
yourself with oil,
but be like a
woman
who has been mourning
for the dead
many
days;
3
then go
to the king
and speak
to him in this
manner."
So Joab
put
the words
in her mouth.
4
Now when the woman
of Tekoa
spoke
to the king,
she fell
on her face
to the ground
and prostrated
herself and said,
"Help,
O king."
5
The king
said
to her, "What
is your trouble?" And she answered,
"Truly
I am a widow,
for my husband
is dead.
6
"Your maidservant
had two
sons,
but the two
of them struggled together
in the field,
and there was no one
to separate
them, so one
struck
the other
and killed
him.
7
"Now behold,
the whole
family
has risen
against
your maidservant,
and they say,
'Hand over
the one who struck
his brother,
that we may put him to death
for the life
of his brother
whom
he killed,
and destroy
the heir
also.'
Thus they will extinguish
my coal
which
is left,
so as to leave
my husband
neither
name
nor
remnant
on the face
of the earth."
8
Then the king
said
to the woman,
"Go
to your house,
and I will give orders
concerning
you."
9
The woman
of Tekoa
said
to
the king,
"O my lord,
the king,
the iniquity
is on me and my father's
house,
but the king
and his throne
are guiltless."
10
So the king
said,
"Whoever speaks
to you, bring
him to me, and he will not touch
you anymore."
11
Then she said,
"Please
let the king
remember
the LORD
your God,
so that the avenger
of blood
will not continue
to destroy,
otherwise
they will destroy
my son."
And he said,
"As
the LORD
lives,
not one hair
of your son
shall fall
to the ground."
12
Then the woman
said,
"Please
let your maidservant
speak
a word
to my lord
the king."
And he
said,
"Speak."
13
The woman
said,
"Why
then have you planned
such a thing
against
the people
of God?
For in speaking
this
word
the king
is as one who is guilty,
in that
the king
does not bring back
his banished one.
14
"For we will surely
die
and are like water
spilled
on the ground
which
cannot
be gathered
up again. Yet God
does not take
away life,
but plans
ways
so that the banished
one will not be cast
out from him.
15
"Now
the reason
I have come
to
speak
this
word
to my lord
the king
is that the people
have made me afraid;
so your maidservant
said,
'Let me now
speak
to
the king
,
perhaps
the king
will perform
the request
of his maidservant.
16
'
For the king
will hear
and deliver
his maidservant
from the hand
of the man
who would destroy
both
me and my son
from the inheritance
of God.'
17
"Then your maidservant
said,
'Please
let the word
of my lord
the king
be comforting,
for as the angel
of God,
so
is my lord
the king
to discern
good
and evil.
And may the LORD
your God
be with you.'"
18
Then
the king
answered
and said
to the woman,
"Please
do not hide
anything
from me that I am about to ask
you." And the woman
said,
"Let my lord
the king
please
speak."
19
So
the king
said,
"Is the hand
of
Joab
with you in
all
this?"
And the woman
replied,
"As your soul
lives,
my lord
the king
,
no
one can turn to the right
or to the left
from anything
that
my lord
the king
has spoken.
Indeed,
it was your servant
Joab
who
commanded
me, and it was he
who
put
all
these
words
in the mouth
of your maidservant;
20
in order
to change
the appearance
of things
your servant
Joab
has done
this
thing.
But my lord
is wise,
like the wisdom
of the angel
of God,
to know
all
that is in the earth."
21
Then the king
said
to Joab,
"Behold
now,
I will surely do
this
thing;
go
therefore, bring back
the young man
Absalom."
22
Joab
fell
on his face
to the ground,
prostrated
himself and blessed
the king;
then
Joab
said,
"Today
your servant
knows
that I have found
favor
in your sight,
O my lord,
the king,
in that the king
has performed
the request
of his servant."
23
So Joab
arose
and went
to Geshur
and brought
Absalom
to Jerusalem.
24
However the king
said,
"Let him turn
to his own house
,
and let him not see
my
face.
"
So Absalom
turned
to his own house
and did not see
the king's
face.
25
Now in all
Israel
was no
one
as handsome
as Absalom,
so highly
praised;
from the sole
of his foot
to the crown of his head
there
was no
defect
in him.
26
When he cut
the hair
of his head
(and it was at the end
of every year
that he cut
it, for it was heavy
on him so he cut
it), he weighed
the hair
of his head
at 200
shekels
by the king's
weight.
27
To Absalom
there were born
three
sons,
and one
daughter
whose name
was Tamar;
she was a woman
of beautiful
appearance.
28
Now Absalom
lived
two full
years
in Jerusalem,
and did not see
the king's
face.
29
Then Absalom
sent
for Joab,
to send
him to the king,
but he would
not come
to him. So he
sent
again
a second time,
but he would
not come
.
30
Therefore he said
to his
servants
,
"See,
Joab's
field
is next
to mine, and he has barley
there;
go
and
set
it
on fire.
"
So Absalom's
servants
set
the
field
on fire.
31
Then Joab
arose,
came
to Absalom
at his house
and said
to him, "Why
have your servants
set
my field
on fire?"
32
Absalom
answered
Joab,
"Behold,
I sent
for you, saying,
'Come
here,
that I may send
you to the king,
to say,
"Why
have I come
from Geshur?
It would be better
for me still
to be
there
."'
Now
therefore, let me see
the king's
face,
and if
there
is iniquity
in me, let him put me to death."
33
So when Joab
came
to the king
and told
him, he called
for
Absalom.
Thus he
came
to the king
and prostrated
himself on his face
to the ground
before
the king,
and the king
kissed
Absalom.
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