Go in to the king and speak like this to him.” So Joab put the words in her mouth.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
2 Samuel 14:3 in context
2 Samuel 14:1–6
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Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was toward Absalom.
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Joab sent to Tekoa and brought a wise woman from there, and said to her, “Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don’t anoint yourself with oil; but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.
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Go in to the king and speak like this to him.” So Joab put the words in her mouth.
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When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, showed respect, and said, “Help, O king!”
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The king said to her, “What ails you?”
She answered, “Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.
6
Your servant had two sons; and they both fought together in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other and killed him.
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