1Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom.stylus2 Samuel 13:39, 2 Samuel 13:39, 2 Samuel 2:18, 2 Samuel 2:18, 2 Samuel 19:22Joab 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 do not anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.stylus2 Chronicles 11:6, 2 Chronicles 11:6, Amos 1:1, Ruth 3:3, Amos 1:13Go in to the king, and speak like this to him." So Joab put the words in her mouth.stylus2 Samuel 14:19, 2 Samuel 14:19, Exodus 4:15, Exodus 4:15, Deuteronomy 18:184When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, showed respect, and said, "Help, O king!"stylus2 Kings 6:26, 2 Kings 6:28, 2 Samuel 1:2, 1 Samuel 25:23, 2 Kings 6:265The king said to her, "What ails you?" She answered, "Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.stylusJudges 9:8, Judges 9:15, 2 Samuel 12:1, 2 Samuel 12:3, Judges 9:86Your handmaid had two sons, and they both fought together in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him.stylusGenesis 4:8, Deuteronomy 22:26, Deuteronomy 22:27, Exodus 2:13, Genesis 4:87Behold, the whole family has 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 they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth."stylusNumbers 35:19, Numbers 35:19, Matthew 21:38, Matthew 21:38, 2 Samuel 12:178The king said to the woman, "Go to your house, and I will give a command concerning you."stylusProverbs 18:13, Proverbs 18:13, Job 29:16, 2 Samuel 12:5, 2 Samuel 12:69The 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."stylus1 Samuel 25:24, 1 Samuel 25:24, 1 Kings 2:33, 1 Kings 2:33, Matthew 27:2510The king said, "Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall not touch you any more."stylus11Then she said, "Please let the king remember the Lord your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son." He said, "As the Lord lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground."stylus1 Samuel 14:45, 1 Samuel 14:45, Matthew 10:30, Numbers 35:19, Matthew 10:3012Then the woman said, "Please let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king." He said, "Say on."stylusActs 26:1, Genesis 44:18, 1 Samuel 25:24, Jeremiah 12:1, Genesis 18:3213The 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.stylus2 Samuel 13:37, 2 Samuel 13:38, 2 Samuel 13:37, 2 Samuel 13:38, 2 Samuel 12:714For we must 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.stylusJob 30:23, Job 30:23, Hebrews 9:27, Numbers 35:28, Hebrews 9:2715Now 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.'stylus16For 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.stylus1 Samuel 26:19, 1 Samuel 26:1917Then your handmaid said, 'Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May the Lord, your God, be with you.'"stylus1 Samuel 29:9, 2 Samuel 19:27, 1 Samuel 29:9, 2 Samuel 19:27, 2 Samuel 14:2018Then the king answered the woman, "Please do not hide anything from me that I ask you." The woman said, "Let my lord the king now speak."stylusJeremiah 38:14, Jeremiah 38:25, 1 Samuel 3:17, 1 Samuel 3:18, Jeremiah 38:1419The king said, "Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?" The woman answered, "As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab, he urged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid;stylus2 Samuel 14:3, 2 Samuel 14:3, 1 Samuel 1:26, 1 Samuel 1:26, Luke 21:1520to change the face of the matter has your servant Joab done this thing. My lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth."stylus2 Samuel 14:17, 2 Samuel 14:17, 2 Samuel 19:27, 2 Samuel 19:27, Proverbs 26:2821The king said to Joab, "Behold now, I have done this thing. Go therefore, bring the young man Absalom back."stylus2 Samuel 14:11, 2 Samuel 14:11, 1 Samuel 14:39, Mark 6:26, 1 Samuel 14:3922Joab fell to the ground on his face, showed respect, and blessed the king. 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."stylusJob 29:11, 1 Samuel 20:3, Job 31:20, Nehemiah 11:2, Genesis 6:823So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.stylus2 Samuel 13:37, 2 Samuel 13:38, 2 Samuel 3:3, 2 Samuel 13:37, 2 Samuel 13:3824The king said, "Let him return to his own house, but let him not see my face." So Absalom returned to his own house, and did not see the king's face.stylusRevelation 22:4, Revelation 22:4, Genesis 43:3, 2 Samuel 14:28, Exodus 10:2825Now 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.stylusIsaiah 1:6, Isaiah 1:6, Deuteronomy 28:35, Job 2:7, Deuteronomy 28:3526When 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.stylusEzekiel 44:20, Ezekiel 44:20, 2 Samuel 18:9, 1 Corinthians 11:14, 2 Samuel 18:927To Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a beautiful face.stylus2 Samuel 18:18, 2 Samuel 18:18, 2 Samuel 13:1, 2 Samuel 13:1, Jeremiah 22:3028Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem; and he did not see the king's face.stylus29Then 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.stylus2 Samuel 14:30, 2 Samuel 14:31, Matthew 22:3, Esther 1:12, 2 Samuel 14:3030Therefore 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. [And the servants of Joab came to him with their clothes rent, and they said to him, "The servants of Absalom have set the field on fire."]stylusJudges 15:4, Judges 15:5, Judges 15:4, Judges 15:5, 1 Kings 21:931Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom to his house, and said to him, "Why have your servants set my field on fire?"stylus32Absalom answered Joab, "Behold, I sent to you, saying, 'Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, "Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me."'"stylus1 Samuel 20:8, Exodus 14:12, Proverbs 28:13, 1 Samuel 20:8, Exodus 14:1233So 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.stylusLuke 15:20, Genesis 33:4, Luke 15:20, Genesis 33:4, Genesis 45:15