2 Samuel 14:1-2 ▼

1 Now Joab the son of Zeruiah knew that the king’s heart longed for Absalom.

2 So Joab sent word to Tekoa and had a wise woman brought from there and told her, “Please pretend to be a mourner, and put on mourning clothes, and do not anoint yourself with oil, but act like a woman who has for many days been in mourning for the dead.