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Chapter Fourteen Now Joab, the son of
Zeruiah, perceived that the king's heart

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was toward Absalom.

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And Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched thence
a wise woman, and said unto her,

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I pray thee, feign thyself to be a
mourner, and put on now mourning apparel,

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and anoint not thyself with oil,
but be as a woman that had a long time

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mourned for the dead, and come to the
king, and speak on this manner unto him.

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So Joab put the words in her mouth.

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And when the woman of Tekoa spake to the
king, she fell on her face to the ground,

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and did obeisance, and said, Help,
O king!

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And the king said unto her, What aileth
thee?

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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 too strove together in the field,

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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.

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And they said, Deliver him that smote his
brother, that we may kill him,

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for the life of his brother whom he slew,
and we will destroy the heir also.

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And so they shall quench my coal which is
left, and shall not leave to my husband

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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

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concerning thee.

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And the woman of Tekoa said unto the king,
My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me,

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and on my father's house, and the king and
his throne be guiltless.

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And the king said, Whosoever saith aught
unto thee, bring him to me, and he shall

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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

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wouldst not suffer the revenges of blood
to destroy any more, lest they destroy my

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son.

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And he said, As the Lord liveth,
there shall not one hair of thy son fall

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to the earth.

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Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid,
I pray thee, speak one word unto my lord

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the king.

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And he said, Say on.

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And the woman said, Wherefore then hast
thou fought such a thing against the

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people of God?

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For the king doth speak this thing as one
which is faulty, in that the king doth not

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fetch home again his banished.

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For we must needs die, and are as water
split on the ground, which cannot be

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gathered up again.

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Neither doth God respect any person,
yet doth he devise means that his banished

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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,

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it is because the people have made me
afraid.

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And thy handmaid said, I will now speak
unto the king.

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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

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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.

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For as an angel of God, so is my lord the
king to discern good and bad.

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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,

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the thing that I shall ask thee.

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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?

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And the woman answered and said,
As thy soul liveth, my lord the king,

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none can turn to the right hand or to the
left from aught that my lord the king hath

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spoken.

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For thy servant Joab, he bade me,
and he put all these words in the mouth of

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thine handmaid.

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To fetch about this form of speech hath
thy servant Joab done this thing.

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And my lord is wise, according to the
wisdom of an angel of God, to know all

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things that are in the earth.

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And the king said unto Joab, Behold now,
I have done this thing.

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Go therefore, bring the young man Absalom
again.

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And Joab fell to the ground on his face,
and bowed himself, and thanked the king.

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And Joab said, Today thy servant knoweth
that I have found grace in thy sight,

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my lord, O king.

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In that the king hath fulfilled the
request of his servant.

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So Joab arose, and went to Geshur,
and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

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And the king said, Let him turn to his own
house, and let him not see my face.

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So Absalom returned to his own house,
and saw not the king's face.

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But in all Israel there was none to be so
much praised as Absalom for his beauty.

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From the sole of his foot even to the
crown of his head there was no blemish in

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him.

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And when he pulled his head, for it was at
every year's end that he pulled it,

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because the hair was heavy on him,
therefore he pulled it, he weighed the

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hair of his head at two hundred shekels
after the king's weight.

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And unto Absalom there were born three
sons and one daughter, whose name was

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Tamar.

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She was a woman of a fair countenance.

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So Absalom dwelt two full years in
Jerusalem, and saw not the king's face.

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Therefore Absalom sent for Joab to have
him sent to the king, but he would not

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come to him.

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And when he sent again the second time,
he would not come.

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Therefore he said unto his servants,
See, Joab's field is near mine,

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and he hath barley there.

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Go and set it on fire.

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And Absalom's servants set the field on
fire.

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Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom unto
his house, and said unto him, Wherefore

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have thy servants set my field on fire?

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And Absalom answered Joab, Behold,
I sent unto thee, saying, Come hither that

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I may send thee to the king, to say,
Wherefore am I come from Gesher?

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It had been good for me to have been there
still.

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Now therefore let me see the king's face,
and if there be any iniquity in me,

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let him kill me.

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So Joab came to the king and told him.

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And when he had called for Absalom,
he came to the king, and bowed himself on

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his face to the ground before the king,
and the king kissed Absalom.