2 Samuel 14
14:1And Joab son of Zeruiah knew that the heart of the king was towards Absalom.
14:2And Joab sent to Tekoah, and he took from there a wise woman. And he said to her, You mourn indeed, and put on mournful garments, and do not anoint yourself with oil, and be as a woman mourning for many days for one having died!
14:3And you shall come to the king, and you shall speak to him according to this thing. And Joab put the words into her mouth.
14:4And the Tekoahite woman entered to the king, and she fell upon her face to the ground, and she did obeisance to him. And she said, Deliver, O king, deliver!
14:5And the king said to her, What to you is it? And she said, By all means I am a widow woman, and my husband died.
14:6And indeed to your maidservant are two sons, and they both quarreled in the field, and there was no one for rescuing between them, and the one hit his one brother, and killed him.
14:7And behold, the entire family rose up against your maidservant, and they said, Give over the one hitting his brother, and we shall kill him, on account of the life of his brother whom he killed; and we shall take away the heir. And so they shall extinguish my spark of coal, the one being left behind to me, so as to not establish to my husband a vestige and name upon the face of the earth.
14:8And the king said to the woman, Go to your house being in health! and I will take charge concerning you.
14:9And the Tekoahite woman said to the king, O my master, O king, upon me be the iniquity, and upon the house of my father! and the king and his throne be innocent!
14:10And the king said, The one speaking to you a word, lead him to me! and in no way shall anyone proceed yet to touch you.
14:11And the woman said, Let now the king remember indeed the lord your God! to multiply a relative for blood to utterly destroy, and in no way take away my son. And he said, As the lord lives, there shall not fall of the hair of your son upon the ground.
14:12And the woman said, Let your maidservant speak indeed to my master the king a thing! And he said, Speak!
14:13And the woman said, Why have you imputed thus upon the people of God? Yes, by the king speaking this word it is as a trespass, for the king to not return the one being thrust away by him.
14:14For to death we shall die, and as the water being discharged upon the earth, not being gathered together; that God shall not take the life; yet he himself devises a device to not thrust away from him the one being thrusted away.
14:15And now for which I came to speak to my master the king this word, for the people see me; and your maidservant will say, Let your maidservant speak indeed to my master the king, if by any means the king shall do the matter of his maidservant;
14:16for the king shall hear to rescue his maidservant from out of the hand of the man seeking to take me away, and my son, from the inheritance of God.
14:17And said your maidservant, Let indeed the word of my master the king be as an accepted sacrifice. For as a messenger of God, thus is my master the king, to hear the good and the bad; and the lord your God will be with you.
14:18And the king answered and said to the woman, You should not indeed hide from me the matter which ever I shall ask you. And the woman said, Let indeed my master the king speak!
14:19And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab in all this with you? And the woman answered and said to the king, As your soul lives, O my master, O king, since there is no turning to the right or to the left of all which my master the king spoke, for your servant Joab himself gave charge to me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your maidservant.
14:20So as for the face of this matter to come about, Joab your servant prepared this thing. And my master the king is wise as the wisdom of a messenger of God, to know all the things in the land.
14:21And the king said to Joab, Behold, indeed I do to you according to this your word. Go return the young man Absalom!
14:22And Joab fell upon his face upon the ground, and did obeisance, and blessed the king. And Joab said, Today your servant knows that he found favor in your eyes, O my master, O king, for my master the king did the matter for his servant.
14:23And Joab rose up and went into Geshur, and he led Absalom into Jerusalem.
14:24And the king said, Let him return to his house, but let him not see my face! And Absalom returned to his house, but the face of the king he did not see.
14:25And there was no man as Absalom in all Israel as exceedingly praiseworthy. From the sole of his foot and unto the top of his head -- there was not a blemish on him.
14:26And in his shearing his head, and it took place at the end of days unto days that he sheared it, for it became burdensome upon him; and shearing, he set aside the hair of his head two hundred shekels of the royal scale-weight.
14:27And there was born to Absalom three sons and one daughter, and her name was Tamar, she was an exceedingly goodly woman.
14:28And Absalom stayed in Jerusalem two years of days, and the face of the king he did not see.
14:29And Absalom sent for Joab to send him to the king, and he did not want to come to him. And he sent again the second time to him, and he did not want to come.
14:30And Absalom said to his servants, You know the portion in the field of Joab being next to mine, and to him is barley there. You go and burn it by fire! And the servants of Absalom burned by fire the portion of the field of Joab.
14:31And Joab rose up, and came to Absalom, to the house, and said to him, Why did your servants set on fire my field with fire?
14:32And Absalom said to Joab, Behold, I sent to you, saying, Come here! And I will send you to the king, saying, Why did I come from out of Geshur? It was good for me to be there. And now, I shall see indeed the face of the king, and if there is iniquity in me then I shall be killed.
14:33And Joab went to the king, and reported to him. And he called Absalom, and he entered to the king, and he did obeisance to him and fell upon his face upon the ground before the king. And the king kissed Absalom.