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2 Samuel 14 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:1 - Now Jo'ab the son of Zeru'iah perceived that the king's heart went out to Ab'salom.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:2 - And Jo'ab sent to Teko'a, and fetched from there a wise woman, and said to her, "Pretend to be a mourner, and put on mourning garments; do not anoint yourself with oil, but behave like a woman who has been mourning many days for the dead;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:3 - and go to the king, and speak thus to him." So Jo'ab put the words in her mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:4 - When the woman of Teko'a came to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, "Help, O king."

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:5 - And the king said to her, "What is your trouble?" She answered, "Alas, I am a widow; my husband is dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:6 - And your handmaid had two sons, and they quarreled with one another in the field; there was no one to part them, and one struck the other and killed him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:7 - And now the whole family has risen against your handmaid, and they say, 'Give up the man who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he slew'; and so they would destroy the heir also. Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant upon the face of the earth."

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:8 - Then the king said to the woman, "Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you."

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:9 - And the woman of Teko'a said to the king, "On me be the guilt, my lord the king, and on my father's house; let the king and his throne be guiltless."

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:10 - The king said, "If any one says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall never touch you again."

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:11 - Then she said, "Pray let the king invoke the LORD your God, that the avenger of blood slay no more, and my son be not destroyed." He said, "As the LORD lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground."

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:12 - Then the woman said, "Pray let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king." He said, "Speak."

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:13 - And the woman said, "Why then have you planned such a thing against the people of God? For in giving this decision the king convicts himself, inasmuch as the king does not bring his banished one home again.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:14 - We must all die, we are like water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; but God will not take away the life of him who devises means not to keep his banished one an outcast.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:15 - Now I have come to say this to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid; and your handmaid thought, 'I will speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:16 - For the king will hear, and deliver his servant from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together from the heritage of God.'

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:17 - And your handmaid thought, 'The word of my lord the king will set me at rest'; for my lord the king is like the angel of God to discern good and evil. The LORD your God be with you!"

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:18 - Then the king answered the woman, "Do not hide from me anything I ask you." And the woman said, "Let my lord the king speak."

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:19 - The king said, "Is the hand of Jo'ab with you in all this?" The woman answered and said, "As surely as you live, my lord the king, one cannot turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has said. It was your servant Jo'ab who bade me; it was he who put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:20 - In order to change the course of affairs your servant Jo'ab did this. But my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God to know all things that are on the earth."

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:21 - Then the king said to Jo'ab, "Behold now, I grant this; go, bring back the young man Ab'salom."

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:22 - And Jo'ab fell on his face to the ground, and did obeisance, and blessed the king; and Jo'ab said, "Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord the king, in that the king has granted the request of his servant."

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:23 - So Jo'ab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Ab'salom to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:24 - And the king said, "Let him dwell apart in his own house; he is not to come into my presence." So Ab'salom dwelt apart in his own house, and did not come into the king's presence.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:25 - Now in all Israel there was no one so much to be praised for his beauty as Ab'salom; from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:26 - And when he cut the hair of his head (for at the end of every year he used to cut it; when it was heavy on him, he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head, two hundred shekels by the king's weight.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:27 - There were born to Ab'salom three sons, and one daughter whose name was Tamar; she was a beautiful woman.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:28 - So Ab'salom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem, without coming into the king's presence.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:29 - Then Ab'salom sent for Jo'ab, to send him to the king; but Jo'ab would not come to him. And he sent a second time, but Jo'ab would not come.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:30 - Then he said to his servants, "See, Jo'ab's field is next to mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire." So Ab'salom's servants set the field on fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:31

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:31 - Then Jo'ab arose and went to Ab'salom at his house, and said to him, "Why have your servants set my field on fire?"

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:32 - Ab'salom answered Jo'ab, "Behold, I sent word to you, 'Come here, that I may send you to the king, to ask, "Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still." Now therefore let me go into the presence of the king; and if there is guilt in me, let him kill me.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:33 - Then Jo'ab went to the king, and told him; and he summoned Ab'salom. So he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king; and the king kissed Ab'salom.
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