2 Samuel 14:1-2

Names of God Bible

Absalom Returns to Jerusalem

14 Joab, Zeruiah’s son, knew the king was still thinking about Absalom. ² So Joab sent someone to Tekoa to get a clever woman from there. He told her, “Please act like a mourner, and dress in mourning clothes. Don’t rub olive oil on yourself,^[a] but act like a woman who has been mourning for the dead for a long time.