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|2 Samuel 14:1|
Joab son of Zeruiah knew that the king’s heart longed for Absalom.
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2
|2 Samuel 14:2|
So Joab sent someone to Tekoa and had a wise woman brought from there. He said to her, “Pretend you are in mourning. Dress in mourning clothes, and don’t use any cosmetic lotions. Act like a woman who has spent many days grieving for the dead.
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3
|2 Samuel 14:3|
Then go to the king and speak these words to him.” And Joab put the words in her mouth.
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4
|2 Samuel 14:4|
When the woman from Tekoa went [Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts spoke] to the king, she fell with her face to the ground to pay him honour, and she said, “Help me, O king!”
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5
|2 Samuel 14:5|
The king asked her, “What is troubling you?” She said, “I am indeed a widow; my husband is dead.
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6
|2 Samuel 14:6|
I your servant had two sons. They got into a fight with each other in the field, and no-one was there to separate them. One struck the other and killed him.
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|2 Samuel 14:7|
Now the whole clan has risen up against your servant; they say, `Hand over the one who struck his brother down, so that we may put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed; then we will get rid of the heir as well.’ They would put out the only burning coal I have left, leaving my husband neither name nor descendant on the face of the earth.”
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8
|2 Samuel 14:8|
The king said to the woman, “Go home, and I will issue an order on your behalf.”
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9
|2 Samuel 14:9|
But the woman from Tekoa said to him, “My lord the king, let the blame rest on me and on my father’s family, and let the king and his throne be without guilt.”
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10
|2 Samuel 14:10|
The king replied, “If anyone says anything to you, bring him to me, and he will not bother you again.”
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