2 Samuel 14:19-21

New International Reader's Version

¹⁹ The king asked, “Joab told you to say all of this, didn’t he?”

The woman answered, “What you have told me is exactly right. And that’s just as sure as you are alive. It’s true that Joab directed me to do this. He told me everything he wanted me to say. ²⁰ He did it to change the way things now are. You are as wise as an angel of God. You know everything that happens in the land.”

²¹ Later the king said to Joab, “All right. I’ll do what you want. Go. Bring back the young man Absalom.”