Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was toward Absalom. 2Sa 13:392Sa 2:181Ch 2:162Sa 18:332Sa 19:22Sa 19:4Pro 29:26 Joab sent to Tekoa and brought a wise woman from there, 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 mourned a long time for the dead. 2Ch 11:6Amo 1:1Rut 3:32Ch 20:202Sa 12:20Jer 6:1Neh 3:52Sa 11:26 Go in to the king and speak like this to him.” So Joab put the words in her mouth. 2Sa 14:19Exo 4:15Deu 18:18Isa 51:16Isa 59:21Jer 1:9Num 23:5
When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, showed respect, and said, “Help, O king!” 1Sa 25:232Ki 6:26-282Sa 1:21Sa 20:41Job 29:12-14Luk 18:3-5
The king said to her, “What ails you?” 2Sa 12:1-3Jdg 9:8-15
She answered, “Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead. Your servant 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. Deu 22:26-27Exo 2:13Gen 4:8 Behold, the whole family has risen against your servant, 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.” Num 35:19Mat 21:382Sa 12:17Deu 19:12-13Deu 25:6Gen 27:45Gen 4:14
The king said to the woman, “Go to your house, and I will give a command concerning you.” Pro 18:132Sa 12:5-62Sa 16:4Isa 11:3-4Job 29:16
The woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord, O king, may the iniquity be on me, and on my father’s house; and may the king and his throne be guiltless.” 1Sa 25:241Ki 2:33Mat 27:252Sa 3:28-29Deu 21:1-9Gen 27:13Num 35:33
The king said, “Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he will not bother you any more.”
Then 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.” 1Sa 14:45Mat 10:30Num 35:191Ki 1:52Act 27:34Deu 19:4-10Num 35:211Sa 20:42
He said, “As the LORD lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth.”
Then the woman said, “Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king.” 1Sa 25:24Act 26:1Gen 18:27Gen 18:32Gen 44:18Jer 12:1
He said, “Say on.”
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 13:37-382Sa 12:71Ki 20:40-42Jdg 20:22Sa 7:8Luk 7:42-44 For we must die, and are like water spilled 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. Job 30:23Heb 9:27Num 35:28Job 34:15Num 35:15Num 35:25Ecc 9:5Job 14:14 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. Your servant said, ‘I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.’ 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. 1Sa 26:19 Then your servant 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.’” 1Sa 29:92Sa 19:272Sa 14:201Ki 3:9Heb 5:141Co 2:14-15Job 6:30Pro 27:21
Then the king answered the woman, “Please don’t hide anything from me that I ask you.” 1Sa 3:17-18Jer 38:14Jer 38:25
The woman said, “Let my lord the king now speak.”
The king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” 2Sa 14:31Sa 1:261Ki 2:5-61Sa 17:551Sa 20:31Sa 25:262Ki 2:22Sa 11:11
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 urged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your servant. Your servant Joab has done this thing to change the face of the matter. My lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are on the earth.” 2Sa 14:172Sa 19:271Co 8:1-22Sa 5:23Gen 3:5Job 32:21-22Job 38:16-41Pro 26:28
The king said to Joab, “Behold now, I have granted this thing. Go therefore, and bring the young man Absalom back.” 2Sa 14:111Sa 14:39Mrk 6:26
Joab 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, O king, in that the king has performed the request of his servant.” 1Sa 20:32Sa 19:39Exo 33:16-17Gen 6:8Job 29:11Job 31:20Neh 11:2Pro 31:28
So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem. 2Sa 13:37-382Sa 3:3 The king said, “Let him return to his own house, but let him not see my face.” So Absalom returned to his own house, and didn’t see the king’s face. Rev 22:42Sa 14:282Sa 3:13Exo 10:28Gen 43:3 Now in all Israel there was no one 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 defect in him. Isa 1:6Deu 28:35Job 2:71Sa 16:71Sa 9:2Mat 23:27Pro 31:30Eph 5:27 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, 1 after the king’s weight. Ezk 44:201Co 11:142Sa 18:9Ezk 45:9-14Gen 23:16Isa 3:24Lev 19:36 Three sons were born to Absalom, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar. She was a woman with a beautiful face. 2Sa 18:182Sa 13:1Isa 14:22Jer 22:30Job 18:16-19 Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem, and he didn’t see the king’s face. Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king, but he would not come to him. Then he sent again a second time, but he would not come. 2Sa 14:30-31Est 1:12Mat 22:3 Therefore he said to his servants, “Behold, Joab’s field is near mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire.” So Absalom’s servants set the field on fire. Jdg 15:4-51Ki 21:9-142Ki 10:6-72Ki 9:332Sa 13:28-29
Then Joab arose and came to Absalom to his house, and said to him, “Why have your servants set my field on fire?”
Absalom 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.”’” 1Sa 20:8Exo 14:12Pro 28:131Sa 15:13Exo 16:3Exo 17:3Gen 3:12Jer 2:22-23
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. Luk 15:20Gen 33:4Gen 27:26Gen 45:15