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1 When Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart longed for Absalom, 2 he sent to Tekoa and brought a wise woman from there, and said to her, |Please pretend to be a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, and do not anoint yourself with oil, but behave as a woman who has been mourning for the dead a long time. 3 Go in to the king and say this to him.| Then Joab told her what to say. 4 And the woman of Tekoa went to the king, and she bowed down with her face to the ground and showed respect, and said, |Help, O king.| 5 And the king said to her, |What is your trouble?|And she replied, |Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead 6 And your servant had two sons, and they both fought together in the field, and there was no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him. 7 Look, the whole family has risen against your servant, and they say, ‘Give us the man who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed.’ Thus they would eliminate also the heir and the one ember I have left will be extinguished, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remnant on the face of the earth. 2 Samuel 14:1-7, New Heart English Bible. Public domain.
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