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And Joab sent to Tekoah ,
and fetched thence a wise woman ,
and said unto her ,
I pray thee ,
feign thyself to be a mourner ,
and put on now mourning apparel ,
and anoint not thyself with oil ,
but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead :
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And come to the king ,
and speak on this manner unto him .
So Joab put the words in her mouth .
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And when the woman of Tekoah spake to the king ,
she fell on her face to the ground ,
and did obeisance ,
and said ,
Help ,
O king .
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And the king said unto her ,
What aileth thee ?
And she answered ,
I am indeed a widow woman ,
and mine husband is dead .
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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 slew him .
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And ,
behold ,
the whole family is risen against thine handmaid ,
and they said ,
Deliver him that smote his brother ,
that we may kill him ,
for the life of his brother whom he slew ;
and we will destroy the heir also :
and so they shall quench my coal which is left ,
and shall not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth .
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And the king said unto the woman ,
Go to thine house ,
and I will give charge concerning thee .
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And the woman of Tekoah said unto 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 .
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And the king said ,
Whosoever saith ought unto thee ,
bring him to me ,
and he shall not touch thee any more .
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Then said she ,
I pray thee ,
let the king remember the LORD thy God ,
that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more ,
lest they destroy my son .
And he said ,
As the LORD liveth ,
there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth .
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Then the woman said ,
Let thine handmaid ,
I pray thee ,
speak one word unto my lord the king .
And he said ,
Say on .
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And the woman said ,
Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God ?
for the king doth speak this thing as one which is faulty ,
in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished .
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For we must needs die ,
and are as water spilt on the ground ,
which cannot be gathered up again ;
neither doth God respect any person :
yet doth he devise means ,
that his banished be not expelled from him .
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Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king ,
it is because the people have made me afraid :
and thy handmaid said ,
I will now speak unto the king ;
it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid .
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For the king will hear ,
to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God .
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Then thine handmaid said ,
The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable :
for as an angel of God ,
so is my lord the king to discern good and bad :
therefore the LORD thy God will be with thee .
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Then the king answered and said unto the woman ,
Hide not from me ,
I pray thee ,
the thing that I shall ask thee .
And the woman said ,
Let my lord the king now speak .
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And the king said ,
Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this ?
And the woman answered and said ,
As thy soul liveth ,
my lord the king ,
none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken :
for thy servant Joab ,
he bade me ,
and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid :
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To fetch about this form of speech hath thy 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 .