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There was no one to separate them, so one struck the other and killed him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Now behold, the entire family has risen against your maidservant, and they say, ‘Hand over the one who killed his brother, so that we may <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[c]</a></span>put him to death [to pay] for the life of his brother whom he killed and destroy the heir also.’ By doing this they will extinguish my coal that is left, leaving my husband without a name or a remnant (heir) on the face of the earth.” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then David said to the woman, “Go to your home, and I will give orders 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 guilt is on me and on my father’s house, but the king and his throne are guiltless.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The king said, “If anyone speaks to you [about this matter], bring him to me [for judgment], and he will not touch you again.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>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 David said, “As the LORD lives, not a single hair [from the head] of your son shall fall to the ground.” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then the woman said, “Please let your maidservant speak <i>one more</i> word to my lord the king.” He said, “Speak.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The woman said, “Now why have you planned such a thing against God’s people? For in speaking this word the king is like a guilty man, in that the king does not bring back his banished one. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For we will certainly die and are like water that is spilled on the ground and cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not [simply] take away life, but devises plans so that the one who is banished is not driven away from Him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Now I came to speak of this matter to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. So your maidservant thought, ‘I will just speak to the king; perhaps the king will do what his maidservant requests. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For the king will hear and save his maidservant from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together from the inheritance of God.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then your maidservant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king be comforting, for my lord the king is as the angel of God to discern good and evil. May the LORD your God be with you.’” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then the king answered and said to the woman, “Do not hide from me anything that I ask you.” And the woman said, “Let my lord the king please 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 of this?” And the woman answered, “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 said. Indeed, it was your servant Joab who commanded me; he put all these words in the mouth of your maidservant. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>In order to change the appearance of things [between Absalom and you, his father] your servant Joab did this thing. But my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God, to know everything that is in the earth.” <p class="hdg">Absalom Is Recalled</p><p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Then the king said to Joab, “Listen, I will most certainly do this thing; now go, bring back the young man Absalom.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Joab bowed his face toward the ground and lay himself down and blessed the king. Then Joab said, “Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord, O king, in that the king has done the request of his servant.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>So Joab got up, went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>However, the king said, “Let him go to his own house, and do not let him see my face.” So Absalom went to his own house and did not see the king’s face. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Now in all Israel there was no man as handsome as Absalom, so highly praised [for that]; from the sole of his foot 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 (for at the end of each year he cut it, because its weight was heavy on him) he weighed the hair of his head at <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[d]</a></span>200 shekels by the king’s weight. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>To Absalom were born three sons and one daughter whose name was <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[e]</a></span>Tamar; she was a beautiful woman. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem, without seeing the king’s face. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>So Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king, but he would not come to him; even when he sent again a second time, he [still] would not come. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Therefore Absalom said to his servants, “See, Joab’s property is near mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire.” So 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 <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[f]</a></span>took action and went to Absalom at his house and said to him, “Why did 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, “I sent for you, saying, ‘Come here, so that I may send you to the king to ask, “Why have I come [back] from Geshur? It would be better for me to still be there.”’ Now then, let me see the king’s face, and if there is guilt in me, let him put me to death.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/14-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>So Joab came to the king and told him. 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