Absalom Returns to Jerusalem
1 So Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was concerned aabout Absalom.
2 And Joab sent to aTekoa and brought from there a wise woman, and said to her, “Please pretend to be a mourner, band put on mourning apparel; do not anoint yourself with oil, but act like a woman who has been mourning a long time for the dead.
3 Go to the king and speak to him in this manner.” So Joab aput the words in her mouth.
4 And when the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she afell on her face to the ground and prostrated herself, and said, b“Help, O king!”
5 Then the king said to her, “What troubles you?” And she answered, a“Indeed I am a widow, my husband is dead.
6 Now your maidservant had two sons; and the two fought with each other in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other and killed him.
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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