| 1 | Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king`s heart was toward Absalom. | 2Sa 2:18 1Ch 2:16 |
| 2 | Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched there a wise woman, and said to her, please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, Please, and don`t anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has a long time mourned for the dead: | 2Ch 11:6 2Ch 20:20 Ne 3:5 Ne 3:27 Jer 6:1 Am 1:1 |
| 3 | and go in to the king, and speak on this manner to him. So Joab put the words in her mouth. | 2Sa 14:19 Ex 4:15 Nm 23:5 Dt 18:18 Isa 51:16 Isa 59:21 Jer 1:9 |
| 4 | 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. | 2Sa 1:2 1Sa 20:41 1Sa 25:23 |
| 5 | The king said to her, What ails you? She answered, Of a truth I am a widow, and my husband is dead. | 2Sa 12:1-3 Jg 9:8-15 |
| 6 | Your handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him. | Gn 4:8 Ex 2:13 Dt 22:26 Dt 22:27 |
| 7 | Behold, the whole family is 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 will they quench my coal which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth. | Gn 4:14 Nm 35:19 Dt 19:12 |
| 8 | The king said to the woman, Go to your house, and I will give charge concerning you. | 2Sa 12:5 2Sa 12:6 2Sa 16:4 Jb 29:16 Pr 18:13 Isa 11:3 Isa 11:4 |
| 9 | 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. | Gn 27:13 1Sa 25:24 Mt 27:25 |
| 10 | The king said, Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall not touch you any more. |
| 11 | Then said she, 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, there shall not one hair of your son fall to the earth. | Gn 14:22 Gn 24:2 Gn 24:3 Gn 31:50 1Sa 20:42 |
| 12 | Then the woman said, Please let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king. He said, Say on. | 1Sa 25:24 |
| 13 | 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. | 2Sa 12:7 1Ki 20:40-42 Lk 7:42-44 |
| 14 | For we must needs 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. | 2Sa 11:25 Jb 30:23 Jb 34:15 Ps 90:3 Ps 90:10 Ec 3:19 Ec 3:20 Ec 9:5 Heb 9:27 |
| 15 | 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. |
| 16 | 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. |
| 17 | Then your handmaid said, Please let the word of my lord the king be comfortable; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: and Yahweh your God be with you. | 2Sa 14:20 2Sa 19:27 1Sa 29:9 Pr 27:21 Pr 29:5 |
| 18 | Then the king answered the woman, Please don`t hide anything from me that I shall ask you. The woman said, Let my lord the king now speak. | 1Sa 3:17 1Sa 3:18 Jer 38:14 Jer 38:25 |
| 19 | The king said, Is the hand of Joab with you in all this? The woman answered, As your soul lives, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid; | 2Sa 3:27 2Sa 3:29 2Sa 3:34 2Sa 11:14 2Sa 11:15 1Ki 2:5 1Ki 2:6 |
| 20 | to change the face of the matter has your servant Joab done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth. | 2Sa 5:23 |
| 21 | The king said to Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing: go therefore, bring the young man Absalom back. | 2Sa 14:11 1Sa 14:39 Mk 6:26 |
| 22 | Joab fell to the ground on his face, and did obeisance, and blessed the king: and 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. | 2Sa 19:39 Ne 11:2 Jb 29:11 Jb 31:20 Pr 31:28 |
| 23 | So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem. | 2Sa 3:3 2Sa 13:37 |
| 24 | The king said, Let him turn to his own house, but let him not see my face. So Absalom turned to his own house, and didn`t see the king`s face. | 2Sa 14:28 2Sa 3:13 Gn 43:3 Ex 10:28 Rev 22:4 |
| 25 | 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. | 1Sa 9:2 1Sa 16:7 Pr 31:30 Mt 23:27 |
| 26 | 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. | 2Sa 18:9 Isa 3:24 1Co 11:14 |
| 27 | To Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a beautiful face. | 2Sa 18:18 Jb 18:16-19 Isa 14:22 Jer 22:30 |
| 28 | Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem; and he didn`t see the king`s face. |
| 29 | 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. | 2Sa 14:30 2Sa 14:31 Es 1:12 Mt 22:3 |
| 30 | 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. | 2Sa 13:28 2Sa 13:29 Jg 15:4 Jg 15:5 |
| 31 | Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom to his house, and said to him, Why have your servants set my field on fire? |
| 32 | Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent to you, saying, Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, Why am I come from Geshur? it were better for me to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king`s face; and if there be iniquity in me, let him kill me. | Ex 14:12 Ex 16:3 Ex 17:3 |
| 33 | 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. | Gn 27:26 Gn 33:4 Gn 45:15 Lk 15:20 |
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