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Themes in 2 Samuel 14
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Themes in 2 Samuel 14

2 Samuel 14:1

Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom.

2 Samuel 14:2

And Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched from there a wise woman, and said to her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on mourning apparel, I pray thee, and do not anoint thyself with oil, but be as a woman who has a lon

2 Samuel 14:3

And go in to the king, and speak on this manner to him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.

2 Samuel 14:4

And when the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.

2 Samuel 14:5

And the king said to her, What troubles thee? And she answered, Of a truth I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

2 Samuel 14:6

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 killed him.

2 Samuel 14:7

And, behold, the whole family is risen against thy handmaid, and they say, Deliver him who smote his brother that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also. Thus they will quench my co

2 Samuel 14:8

And the king said to the woman, Go to thy house, and I will give charge concerning thee.

2 Samuel 14:9

And the woman of Tekoa said to 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.

2 Samuel 14:10

And the king said, Whoever says anything to thee, bring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more.

2 Samuel 14:11

Then she said, I pray thee, let the king remember LORD thy God, that the avenger of blood not destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As LORD lives, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.

2 Samuel 14:12

Then the woman said, Let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak a word to my lord the king. And he said, Say on.

2 Samuel 14:13

And the woman said, Why then have thou devised such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as he who is guilty, in that the king does not fetch home again his banished one.

2 Samuel 14:14

For we must die, and are as water split on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again, neither does God take away life, but devises means that he who is banished be not an outcast from him.

2 Samuel 14:15

Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid. And thy handmaid said, I will now speak to the king. It may be that the king will perform the request of hi

2 Samuel 14:16

For the king will hear to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

2 Samuel 14:17

Then thy handmaid said, Let, I pray thee, the word of my lord the king be gracious, for as an agent of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. And LORD thy God be with thee.

2 Samuel 14:18

Then the king answered and said to the woman, Hide not from me, I pray thee, anything that I shall ask thee. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.

2 Samuel 14:19

And the king said, Is the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul lives, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken, for

2 Samuel 14:20

Thy servant Joab has done this thing to change the face of the matter. And my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an agent of God, to know all things that are on the earth.

2 Samuel 14:21

And the king said to Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing. Go therefore, bring the young man Absalom back.

2 Samuel 14:22

And Joab fell to the ground on his face, and did obeisance, and blessed the king. And Joab said, Today thy servant knows that I have found favor in thy sight, my lord, O king, in that the king has performed the request of his serva

2 Samuel 14:23

So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 14:24

And the king said, Let him turn to his own house, but let him not see my face. So Absalom turned to his own house, and did not see the king's face.

2 Samuel 14:25

Now 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.

2 Samuel 14:26

And when he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year's end that he cut it, because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king's weight.

2 Samuel 14:27

And to Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter whose name was Tamar. She was a woman of a fair countenance.

2 Samuel 14:28

And Absalom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem, and he did not see the king's face.
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2 Samuel 14:29

Then Absalom sent for Joab to send him to the king, but he would not come to him. And he sent again a second time, but he would not come.

2 Samuel 14:30

Therefore he said to his servants, See, Joab's field is near mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire. And Absalom's servants set the field on fire.

2 Samuel 14:31

Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom to his house, and said to him, Why have thy servants set my field on fire?

2 Samuel 14:32

And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent to thee, saying, Come here, that I may send thee to the king to say, Why have I come from Geshur? It were better for me to still be there. Now therefore let me see the king's face, and if t

2 Samuel 14:33

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.
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