2 Samuel 14:2-4

International Standard Version

² so he^[a] sent messengers^[b] to Tekoa to bring a wise woman from there. He told her, “Please play the role of a mourner, wear the clothes of a mourner, and refrain from using makeup.^[c] Act like a woman who’s been in mourning for the dead for many days. ³ Then go to the king and speak to him like this…” Then Joab told her what to say.

⁴ When the woman from Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, prostrating herself to address him, “Help, your majesty!”