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is dead.
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But Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked,
and, behold, there came much people by the way of the hill side behind him.
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And Jonadab said
unto the king, Behold, the king’s sons come: as thy servant said, so it is.
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And it came to pass, as
soon as he had made an end of speaking, that, behold, the king’s sons came, and lifted up their
voice and wept: and the king also and all his servants wept very sore.
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But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And
David
mourned for his son every day.
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So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.
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And
the soul of
king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning
Amnon, seeing he was dead.
CHAPTER SAMUEL 14
Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart
was
toward Absalom.
2
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:
3
And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him.
So Joab put the words in her mouth.
4
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.
5
And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered,
I
am
indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.
6
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.
7
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.
8
And the king said unto the woman,
Go to thine house, and I will give charge concerning thee.
9
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.
10
And the king said, Whosoever saith
ought
unto thee, bring him to me, and
he shall not touch thee any more.
11
Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the L
ORD
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 L
ORD
liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.
12
Then
the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak
one
word unto my lord the king. And he
said, Say on.
13
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.
14
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.
15
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
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