2 Samuel 14:2-5 ▼

2 So Joab sent to Tekoa and brought a wise woman from there and said to her, “Please pretend to be a mourner, and put on mourning garments now, and do not anoint yourself with oil, but be like a woman who has been mourning for the dead many days;

3 then you shall go to the king and speak to him in this manner.” So Joab put the words in her mouth.

4 So the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, and she fell on her face to the ground and prostrated herself and said, “Save, O king.”

5 And the king said to her, “What is your trouble?” And she answered, “Truly I am a widow; my husband has died.