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Chapter 14
Now
Joab
the
son
of
Zeruiah
perceived
that
the
king’s
heart
was
toward
Absalom.
2
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:
3
And
come
to
the
king,
and
speak
on
this
manner
unto
him.
So
Joab
put
the
words
in
her
mouth.
4
And
when
the
woman
of
Tekoah
spake
to
the
king,
she
fell
on
her
face
to
the
ground,
and
did
obeisance,
and
said,
Help,
O
king.
5
And
the
king
said
unto
her,
What
aileth
thee?
And
she
answered,
I
am
indeed
a
widow
woman,
and
mine
husband
is
dead.
6
And
thy
handmaid
had
two
sons,
and
they
two
strove
together
in
the
field,
and
there
was
none
to
part
them,
but
the
one
smote
the
other,
and
slew
him.
7
And,
behold,
the
whole
family
is
risen
against
thine
handmaid,
and
they
said,
Deliver
him
that
smote
his
brother,
that
we
may
kill
him,
for
the
life
of
his
brother
whom
he
slew;
and
we
will
destroy
the
heir
also:
and
so
they
shall
quench
my
coal
which
is
left,
and
shall
not
leave
to
my
husband
neither
name
nor
remainder
upon
the
earth.
8
And
the
king
said
unto
the
woman,
Go
to
thine
house,
and
I
will
give
charge
concerning
thee.
9
And
the
woman
of
Tekoah
said
unto
the
king,
My
lord,
O
king,
the
iniquity
be
on
me,
and
on
my
father’s
house:
and
the
king
and
his
throne
be
guiltless.
10
And
the
king
said,
Whosoever
saith
ought
unto
thee,
bring
him
to
me,
and
he
shall
not
touch
thee
any
more.
11
Then
said
she,
I
pray
thee,
let
the
king
remember
the
Lord
thy
God,
that
thou
wouldest
not
suffer
the
revengers
of
blood
to
destroy
any
more,
lest
they
destroy
my
son.
And
he
said,
As
the
Lord
liveth,
there
shall
not
one
hair
of
thy
son
fall
to
the
earth.
12
Then
the
woman
said,
Let
thine
handmaid,
I
pray
thee,
speak
one
word
unto
my
lord
the
king.
And
he
said,
Say
on.
13
And
the
woman
said,
Wherefore
then
hast
thou
thought
such
a
thing
against
the
people
of
God?
for
the
king
doth
speak
this
thing
as
one
which
is
faulty,
in
that
the
king
doth
not
fetch
home
again
his
banished.
14
For
we
must
needs
die,
and
are
as
water
spilt
on
the
ground,
which
cannot
be
gathered
up
again;
neither
doth
God
respect
any
person:
yet
doth
he
devise
means,
that
his
banished
be
not
expelled
from
him.
15
Now
therefore
that
I
am
come
to
speak
of
this
thing
unto
my
lord
the
king,
it
is
because
the
people
have
made
me
afraid:
and
thy
handmaid
said,
I
will
now
speak
unto
the
king;
it
may
be
that
the
king
will
perform
the
request
of
his
handmaid.
16
For
the
king
will
hear,
to
deliver
his
handmaid
out
of
the
hand
of
the
man
that
would
destroy
me
and
my
son
together
out
of
the
inheritance
of
God.
17
Then
thine
handmaid
said,
The
word
of
my
lord
the
king
shall
now
be
comfortable:
for
as
an
angel
of
God,
so
is
my
lord
the
king
to
discern
good
and
bad:
therefore
the
Lord
thy
God
will
be
with
thee.
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.
19
And
the
king
said,
Is
not
the
hand
of
Joab
with
thee
in
all
this?
And
the
woman
answered
and
said,
As
thy
soul
liveth,
my
lord
the
king,
none
can
turn
to
the
right
hand
or
to
the
left
from
ought
that
my
lord
the
king
hath
spoken:
for
thy
servant
Joab,
he
bade
me,
and
he
put
all
these
words
in
the
mouth
of
thine
handmaid:
20
To
fetch
about
this
form
of
speech
hath
thy
servant
Joab
done
this
thing:
and
my
lord
is
wise,
according
to
the
wisdom
of
an
angel
of
God,
to
know
all
things
that
are
in
the
earth.
21
And
the
king
said
unto
Joab,
Behold
now,
I
have
done
this
thing:
go
therefore,
bring
the
young
man
Absalom
again.
22
And
Joab
fell
to
the
ground
on
his
face,
and
bowed
himself,
and
thanked
the
king:
and
Joab
said,
To
day
thy
servant
knoweth
that
I
have
found
grace
in
thy
sight,
my
lord,
O
king,
in
that
the
king
hath
fulfilled
the
request
of
his
servant.
23
So
Joab
arose
and
went
to
Geshur,
and
brought
Absalom
to
Jerusalem.
24
And
the
king
said,
Let
him
turn
to
his
own
house,
and
let
him
not
see
my
face.
So
Absalom
returned
to
his
own
house,
and
saw
not
the
king’s
face.
25
But
in
all
Israel
there
was
none
to
be
so
much
praised
as
Absalom
for
his
beauty:
from
the
sole
of
his
foot
even
to
the
crown
of
his
head
there
was
no
blemish
in
him.
26
And
when
he
polled
his
head,
(for
it
was
at
every
year’s
end
that
he
polled
it:
because
the
hair
was
heavy
on
him,
therefore
he
polled
it:)
he
weighed
the
hair
of
his
head
at
two
hundred
shekels
after
the
king’s
weight.
27
And
unto
Absalom
there
were
born
three
sons,
and
one
daughter,
whose
name
was
Tamar:
she
was
a
woman
of
a
fair
countenance.
28
So
Absalom
dwelt
two
full
years
in
Jerusalem,
and
saw
not
the
king’s
face.
29
Therefore
Absalom
sent
for
Joab,
to
have
sent
him
to
the
king;
but
he
would
not
come
to
him:
and
when
he
sent
again
the
second
time,
he
would
not
come.
30
Therefore
he
said
unto
his
servants,
See,
Joab’s
field
is
near
mine,
and
he
hath
barley
there;
go
and
set
it
on
fire.
And
Absalom’s
servants
set
the
field
on
fire.
31
Then
Joab
arose,
and
came
to
Absalom
unto
his
house,
and
said
unto
him,
Wherefore
have
thy
servants
set
my
field
on
fire?
32
And
Absalom
answered
Joab,
Behold,
I
sent
unto
thee,
saying,
Come
hither,
that
I
may
send
thee
to
the
king,
to
say,
Wherefore
am
I
come
from
Geshur?
it
had
been
good
for
me
to
have
been
there
still:
now
therefore
let
me
see
the
king’s
face;
and
if
there
be
any
iniquity
in
me,
let
him
kill
me.
33
So
Joab
came
to
the
king,
and
told
him:
and
when
he
had
called
for
Absalom,
he
came
to
the
king,
and
bowed
himself
on
his
face
to
the
ground
before
the
king:
and
the
king
kissed
Absalom.
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