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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. Go to the king, and tell him this. . . .” Then Joab told her exactly what to say.

The woman from Tekoa came[b] to the king and immediately bowed down with her face touching the ground. “Help me, Your Majesty,” she said.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 14:2 A cosmetic treatment of the skin.
  2. 2 Samuel 14:4 Many Hebrew manuscripts, Greek, Syriac, Targum, Latin; some Hebrew manuscripts “said.”

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