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17 And your servant says, ‘Let the word of my lord the king lead to rest;[a] indeed, my lord the king is like an angel of God, discerning good and evil. The Lord your God be with you.’”(A)

18 The king answered the woman, “Now do not conceal from me anything I may ask you!” The woman said, “Let my lord the king speak.” 19 So the king asked, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” And the woman answered: “As you live, my lord the king, it is just as my lord has said, and not otherwise. It was your servant Joab who instructed me and told your servant all these things she was to say.

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Footnotes

  1. 14:17 Rest: cf. Ru 1:9; Ps 95:11; Mi 2:10. The reference here is to a return home for Absalom.