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So Joab put the words in her mouth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, "Help, O king!" <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The king said to her, "What ails you?" She answered, "Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Your handmaid had two sons, and they both fought together in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Behold, the whole family has risen against your handmaid, and they say, 'Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.' Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The king said to the woman, "Go to your house, and I will give a command concerning you." <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The woman of Tekoa said to 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." <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The king said, "Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall not touch you any more." <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then she said, "Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son." He said, "As Yahweh lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then the woman said, "Please let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king." He said, "Say on." <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The woman said, "Why then have you devised 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 home again his banished one. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For we must die, and are as water split on the ground, which can't be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and your handmaid said, 'I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.' <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then your handmaid said, 'Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.'"</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then the king answered the woman, "Please don't hide anything from me that I ask you." The woman said, "Let my lord the king now speak." <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The king said, "Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?" The woman answered, "As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab, he urged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>to change the face of the matter has your servant Joab done this thing. My lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>The king said to Joab, "Behold now, I have done this thing. Go therefore, bring the young man Absalom back." <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Joab fell to the ground on his face, and did obeisance, and blessed the king. Joab said, "Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord, king, in that the king has performed the request of his servant." <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>The king said, "Let him return to his own house, but let him not see my face." So Absalom returned to his own house, and didn't see the king's face.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Now 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year's end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king's weight. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>To Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a beautiful face.</p> <p class="hdg">Absalom Reconciled to David</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem; and he didn't see the king's face. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king; but he would not come to him: and he sent again a second time, but he would not come. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Therefore he said to his servants, "Behold, Joab's field is near mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire." Absalom's servants set the field on fire. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom to his house, and said to him, "Why have your servants set my field on fire?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Absalom answered Joab, "Behold, I sent to 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 to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me."'" <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>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.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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