1 Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom.
2 Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched there a wise woman, 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 a long time mourned for the dead:
3 and go in to the king, and speak on this manner to him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.
4 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.
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