Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom.
And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:
to Tekoah Tekoah was a city of Judah, situated, according to Eusebius and Jerome, twelve miles south of Jerusalem. Josephus says it was not far from the castle of Herodium. and Jerome (Prologue to Amos) says it stood on a hill six miles south from Bethlehem. Dr. Poccocke places it at the same distance; and says there are still considerable ruins on the top of a hill, which is about half a mile long a furlong broad.
2 Chronicles 11:6 He built even Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
2 Chronicles 20:20 And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness …
Nehemiah 3:5,27 And next to them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not …
Jeremiah 6:1 O you children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the …
Amos 1:1 The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he …
Tekoa
mourning
2 Samuel 11:26 And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, …
Ruth 3:3 Wash yourself therefore, and anoint you, and put your raiment on …
Psalm 104:15 And wine that makes glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face …
Ecclesiastes 9:8 Let your garments be always white; and let your head lack no ointment.
Matthew 6:17 But you, when you fast, anoint your head, and wash your face;
And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.
put the words
2 Samuel 14:19 And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with you in all this? …
Exodus 4:15 And you shall speak to him, and put words in his mouth: and I will …
Numbers 23:5 And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return to Balak, …
Deuteronomy 18:18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brothers, like to …
Isaiah 51:16 And I have put my words in your mouth, and I have covered you in …
Isaiah 59:21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, said the LORD; My spirit …
Jeremiah 1:9 Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD …
And when the woman of Tekoah spake to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.
fell on her
2 Samuel 1:2 It came even to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came out …
1 Samuel 20:41 And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of a place toward …
1 Samuel 25:23 And when Abigail saw David, she hurried, and lighted off the donkey, …
Help [heb] Save
2 Kings 6:26-28 And as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, there cried …
Job 29:12-14 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and …
Luke 18:3-5 And there was a widow in that city; and she came to him, saying, …
And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.
And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and slew him.
And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth.
And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I will give charge concerning thee.
And the woman of Tekoah said unto 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.
the iniquity
Genesis 27:13 And his mother said to him, On me be your curse, my son: only obey …
1 Samuel 25:24 And fell at his feet, and said, On me, my lord, on me let this iniquity …
Matthew 27:25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
and the king
2 Samuel 3:28,29 And afterward when David heard it, he said…
Numbers 35:33 So you shall not pollute the land wherein you are: for blood it defiles …
Deuteronomy 21:1-9 If one be found slain in the land which the LORD your God gives you …
1 Kings 2:33 Their blood shall therefore return on the head of Joab, and on the …
And the king said, Whosoever saith ought unto thee, bring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more.
Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.
let the king
Genesis 14:22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up my hand to the …
Genesis 24:2,3 And Abraham said to his oldest servant of his house, that ruled over …
Genesis 31:50 If you shall afflict my daughters, or if you shall take other wives …
1 Samuel 20:42 And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, for as much as we have sworn …
thou, etc. [heb] the revenger of blood do not multiply to destroy
the revengers
Numbers 35:19,27 The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meets …
Deuteronomy 19:4-10 And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that …
Joshua 20:3-6 That the slayer that kills any person unawares and unwittingly may …
As the Lord
1 Samuel 14:45 And the people said to Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this …
1 Samuel 28:10 And Saul swore to her by the LORD, saying, As the LORD lives, there …
Jeremiah 4:2 And you shall swear, The LORD lives, in truth, in judgment, and in …
not one hair
1 Kings 1:52 And Solomon said, If he will show himself a worthy man, there shall …
Matthew 10:30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Acts 27:34 Why I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for …
Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak one word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.
Let thine
1 Samuel 25:24 And fell at his feet, and said, On me, my lord, on me let this iniquity …
speak one word
Genesis 18:27,32 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken on me to …
Genesis 44:18 Then Judah came near to him, and said, Oh my lord, let your servant, …
Jeremiah 12:1 Righteous are you, O LORD, when I plead with you: yet let me talk …
Say on
Acts 26:1 Then Agrippa said to Paul, You are permitted to speak for yourself. …
And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished.
Wherefore
2 Samuel 12:7 And Nathan said to David, You are the man. Thus said the LORD God …
1 Kings 20:40-42 And as your servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And the …
Luke 7:42-44 And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell …
people
2 Samuel 7:8 Now therefore so shall you say to my servant David, Thus said the …
Judges 20:2 And the chief of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, …
in that the king
2 Samuel 13:37,38 But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king of …
For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
we must
2 Samuel 11:25 Then David said to the messenger, Thus shall you say to Joab, Let …
Job 30:23 For I know that you will bring me to death, and to the house appointed …
Job 34:15 All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again to dust.
Psalm 90:3,10 You turn man to destruction; and say, Return, you children of men…
Ecclesiastes 3:19,20 For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts; even one thing …
Ecclesiastes 9:5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any …
Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment:
as water
Job 14:7-12,14 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout …
Psalm 22:14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my …
Psalm 79:3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and …
neither, etc. or, because God hath not taken away his life, he hath also devised means, etc.
God
Deuteronomy 10:17 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great …
Job 34:19 How much less to him that accepts not the persons of princes, nor …
Matthew 22:16 And they sent out to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, …
Acts 10:34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that …
Romans 2:11 For there is no respect of persons with God.
1 Peter 1:17 And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges …
he devise
Exodus 21:13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; …
Leviticus 26:40 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, …
Numbers 35:15,25,28 These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, …
Isaiah 50:1,2 Thus said the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, whom …
Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid.
For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.
Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD thy God will be with thee.
comfortable [heb] for rest
as an angel This is very much like the hyperbolical language which is addressed by the Hindoos to an European when they desire to obtain something from him: `Saheb,' they say, `can do every thing. No one can prevent the execution of Saheb's commands. Saheb is God.' Though the expression may be imputed to the hyperbolical genius of these countries, yet there was, perhaps, more of real persuasion than we are apt to suppose. Sir John Chardin states, that having found fault with the king of Persia's valuation of a rich trinket, the grand master told him that if a Persian had dared to have done such a thing, it would have been as much as his life was worth. `Know,' said he, `that the kings of Persia have a general and full knowledge of matters, as sure as it is extensive; and that, equally in the greatest and smallest things, there is nothing more just and sure than what they pronounce.'
2 Samuel 14:20 To fetch about this form of speech has your servant Joab done this …
2 Samuel 19:27 And he has slandered your servant to my lord the king; but my lord …
1 Samuel 29:9 And Achish answered and said to David, I know that you are good in …
Proverbs 27:21 As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man …
Proverbs 29:5 A man that flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
to discern [heb] to hear
1 Kings 3:9,28 Give therefore your servant an understanding heart to judge your …
Job 6:30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
1 Corinthians 2:14,15 But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: …
Hebrews 5:14 But strong meat belongs to them that are of full age…
Then the king answered and said unto the woman, Hide not from me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall ask thee. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.
And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid:
of Joab
2 Samuel 3:27,29,34 And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the …
2 Samuel 1:14,15 And David said to him, How were you not afraid to stretch forth your …
1 Kings 2:5,6 Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and …
As thy soul
2 Samuel 11:11 And Uriah said to David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in …
1 Samuel 1:26 And she said, Oh my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman …
1 Samuel 17:55 And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said …
1 Samuel 20:3 And David swore moreover, and said, Your father certainly knows that …
1 Samuel 25:26 Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, …
2 Kings 2:2 And Elijah said to Elisha, Tarry here, I pray you; for the LORD has …
turn
Numbers 20:17 Let us pass, I pray you, through your country: we will not pass through …
Deuteronomy 5:32 You shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God has commanded …
Deuteronomy 28:14 And you shall not go aside from any of the words which I command …
Joshua 1:7 Only be you strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do …
Proverbs 4:27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove your foot from evil.
he put
2 Samuel 14:3 And come to the king, and speak on this manner to him. So Joab put …
Exodus 4:15 And you shall speak to him, and put words in his mouth: and I will …
Luke 21:15 For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries …
To fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant Joab done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.
fetch
2 Samuel 5:23 And when David inquired of the LORD, he said, You shall not go up; …
according
2 Samuel 14:17 Then your handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be …
2 Samuel 19:27 And he has slandered your servant to my lord the king; but my lord …
Job 32:21,22 Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give …
Proverbs 26:28 A lying tongue hates those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering …
Proverbs 29:5 A man that flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
to know
Genesis 3:5 For God does know that in the day you eat thereof, then your eyes …
Job 38:16 Have you entered into the springs of the sea? or have you walked …
1 Corinthians 8:1,2 Now as touching things offered to idols, we know that we all have …
And the king said unto Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing: go therefore, bring the young man Absalom again.
And Joab fell to the ground on his face, and bowed himself, and thanked the king: and Joab said, To day thy servant knoweth that I have found grace in thy sight, my lord, O king, in that the king hath fulfilled the request of his servant.
thanked heb. blessed
2 Samuel 19:39 And all the people went over Jordan. And when the king was come over, …
Nehemiah 11:2 And the people blessed all the men, that willingly offered themselves …
Job 29:11 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, …
Job 31:20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with …
Proverbs 31:28 Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and …
I have found
Genesis 6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
Exodus 33:16,17 For wherein shall it be known here that I and your people have found …
Ruth 2:2 And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, Let me now go to the field, …
1 Samuel 20:3 And David swore moreover, and said, Your father certainly knows that …
his or thy
So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
And the king said, Let him turn to his own house, and let him not see my face. So Absalom returned to his own house, and saw not the king's face.
But 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.
But in all Israel, etc. Heb. And as Absalom there was not a beautiful man in all Israel to praise greatly.
1 Samuel 9:2 And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly…
1 Samuel 16:7 But the LORD said to Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the …
Proverbs 31:30 Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that fears the …
Matthew 23:27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like to …
from the sole.
Deuteronomy 28:35 The LORD shall smite you in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore …
Job 2:7 So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job …
Isaiah 1:6 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness …
Ephesians 5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having …
And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight.
when he polled
2 Samuel 18:9 And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode on a mule, …
Isaiah 3:24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall …
1 Corinthians 11:14 Does not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, …
two hundred shekels. If the shekel be allowed to mean the common shekel, the amount will be utterly incredible; for Josephus says that 'two hundred shekels make five mina, he says, 'weighs two pounds and a half; which calculation makes Absalom's hair weigh twelve pounds and a half! But it is probable that the king's shekel was that which Epiphanius and Hesychius say was the Fourth part of an ounce, half a stater, or two drachms; the whole amount, therefore, of the
Genesis 23:16 And Abraham listened to Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the …
Leviticus 19:36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall …
Ezekiel 45:9-14 Thus said the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: …
And unto Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a fair countenance.
So Absalom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem, and saw not the king's face.
Therefore Absalom sent for Joab, to have sent him to the king; but he would not come to him: and when he sent again the second time, he would not come.
Therefore he said unto his servants, See, Joab's field is near mine, and he hath barley there; go and set it on fire. And Absalom's servants set the field on fire.
near mine Heb. near my place
go and set
2 Samuel 13:28,29 Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark you now when …
Judges 15:4,5 And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, …
And Abolom's
1 Kings 21:9-14 And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth …
2 Kings 9:33 And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and some of …
2 Kings 10:6,7 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If you be …
Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom unto his house, and said unto him, Wherefore have thy servants set my field on fire?
And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent unto thee, saying, Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say, Wherefore am I come from Geshur? it had been good for me to have been there still: now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there be any iniquity in me, let him kill me.
it had been
Exodus 14:12 Is not this the word that we did tell you in Egypt, saying, Let us …
Exodus 16:3 And the children of Israel said to them, Would to God we had died …
Exodus 17:3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured …
if there
Genesis 3:12 And the man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave …
1 Samuel 15:13 And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said to him, Blessed be you of …
Psalm 36:2 For he flatters himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found …
Proverbs 28:13 He that covers his sins shall not prosper: but whoever confesses …
Jeremiah 2:22,23 For though you wash you with nitre, and take you much soap, yet your …
Jeremiah 8:12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? no, they were …
Matthew 25:44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we you an …
Romans 3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law said, it said to them …
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.
