2Samuel:14:2-20

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* And Joab sent to Tekoa , and fetched from there a wise woman , and said to her , I pray thee , feign thyself to be a mourner , and put on mourning apparel , I pray thee , and do not anoint thyself with oil , but be as a woman who has a lon * And go in to the king , and speak on this manner to him . So Joab put the words in her mouth . * And 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 . * And the king said to her , What troubles thee ? And she answered , Of a truth I am a widow , and my husband is dead . * And thy handmaid had two sons , and they two strove together in the field , and there was none to part them , but the one smote the other , and killed him . * And , behold , the whole family is risen against thy handmaid , and they say , Deliver him who smote his brother that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed , and so destroy the heir also . Thus they will quench my co * And the king said to the woman , Go to thy house , and I will give charge concerning thee . * And 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 . * And the king said , Whoever says anything to thee , bring him to me , and he shall not touch thee any more . * Then she said , I pray thee , let the king remember LORD thy God , that the avenger of blood not destroy any more , lest they destroy my son . And he said , As LORD lives , there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth . * Then the woman said , Let thy handmaid , I pray thee , speak a word to my lord the king . And he said , Say on . * And the woman said , Why then have thou devised such a thing against the people of God ? For in speaking this word the king is as he who is guilty , in that the king does not fetch home again his banished one . * For we must die , and are as water split on the ground , which cannot be gathered up again , neither does God take away life , but devises means that he who is banished be not an outcast from him . * 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 thy handmaid said , I will now speak to the king . It may be that the king will perform the request of hi * 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 . * Then thy handmaid said , Let , I pray thee , the word of my lord the king be gracious , for as an agent of God , so is my lord the king to discern good and bad . And LORD thy God be with thee . * Then the king answered and said to the woman , Hide not from me , I pray thee , anything that I shall ask thee . And the woman said , Let my lord the king now speak . * And the king said , Is the hand of Joab with thee in all this ? And the woman answered and said , As thy 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 * Thy servant Joab has done this thing to change the face of the matter . And my lord is wise , according to the wisdom of an agent of God , to know all things that are on the earth .

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