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So Joab put the words in her mouth.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/14-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/14-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>The king said to her, What is your trouble? And she answered, Truly I am a widow, for my husband is dead. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/14-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/14-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>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.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/14-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>Then the king said to the woman, Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/14-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>The woman of Tekoa said to the king, O my lord, the king, the iniquity is on me and my fathers house, but the king and his throne are guiltless. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/14-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>So the king said, Whoever speaks to you, bring him to me, and he will not touch you anymore. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/14-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>Then she said, Please let the king remember the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God, <i>so that</i> the avenger of blood will not continue to destroy, otherwise they will destroy my son. And he said, As the L<font size="1">ORD</font> lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/14-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>Then the woman said, Please let your maidservant speak a word to my lord the king. And he said, Speak. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/14-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>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, <i>in that</i> the king does not bring back his banished one. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/14-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/14-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/14-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/14-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>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 L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God be with you.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/14-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/14-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>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; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/14-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>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.<p> <font size="1"><br><br></font><font color="#000000"><b><i>Absalom Is Recalled</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font>      <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/14-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>Then the king said to Joab, Behold now, I will surely do this thing; go therefore, bring back the young man Absalom. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/14-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/14-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>So Joab arose and went to Geshur and brought Absalom to Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/14-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>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 kings face.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/14-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/14-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>When he cut the hair of his head (and it was at the end of every year that he cut <i>it,</i> for it was heavy on him so he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head at 200 shekels by the kings weight. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/14-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>To Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter whose name was Tamar; she was a woman of beautiful appearance.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/14-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>Now Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem, and did not see the kings face. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/14-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/14-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>Therefore he said to his servants, See, Joabs field is next to mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire. So Absaloms servants set the field on fire. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/14-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>Then Joab arose, came to Absalom at his house and said to him, Why have your servants set my field on fire? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/14-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>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 kings face, and if there is iniquity in me, let him put me to death. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/14-33.htm" target="_top"><b>33</b></a></span>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.<p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">NASB 1995 Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. 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