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|2 Samuel 14:17|
“And now your servant says, `May the word of my lord the king bring me rest, for my lord the king is like an angel of God in discerning good and evil. May the LORD your God be with you.’“
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|2 Samuel 14:18|
Then the king said to the woman, “Do not keep from me the answer to what I am going to ask you.” “Let my lord the king speak,” the woman said.
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|2 Samuel 14:19|
The king asked, “Isn’t the hand of Joab with you in all this?” The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, no-one can turn to the right or to the left from anything my lord the king says. Yes, it was your servant Joab who instructed me to do this and who put all these words into the mouth of your servant.
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|2 Samuel 14:20|
Your servant Joab did this to change the present situation. My lord has wisdom like that of an angel of God — he knows everything that happens in the land.”
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21
|2 Samuel 14:21|
The king said to Joab, “Very well, I will do it. Go, bring back the young man Absalom.”
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|2 Samuel 14:22|
Joab fell with his face to the ground to pay him honour, and he blessed the king. Joab said, “Today your servant knows that he has found favour in your eyes, my lord the king, because the king has granted his servant’s request.”
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|2 Samuel 14:23|
Then Joab went to Geshur and brought Absalom back to Jerusalem.
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24
|2 Samuel 14:24|
But the king said, “He must go to his own house; he must not see my face.” So Absalom went to his own house and did not see the face of the king.
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|2 Samuel 14:25|
In all Israel there was not a man so highly praised for his handsome appearance as Absalom. From the top of his head to the sole of his foot there was no blemish in him.
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|2 Samuel 14:26|
Whenever he cut the hair of his head — he used to cut his hair from time to time when it became too heavy for him — he would weigh it, and its weight was two hundred shekels [That is, about 5 pounds (about 2.3 kilograms)] by the royal standard.
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Sugerencias
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