(_b_) The second passage is in _2 Samuel_ 20^{16-22}--Joab, as David’s general, having pursued the rebel Sheba into the North of Israel, has compelled him to take refuge in the town of Abel, and is on the point of breaching the wall and capturing the city, when _there cried unto him_ =a wise woman= _out of the city ... and she said unto him “There is a saying_, =To finish your business ask counsel at Abel=.”[33] _Thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. And Joab answered and said, “Far be it from me that I should swallow and destroy. But ... Sheba the son of Bichri ... deliver him only, and I will depart from the city.” And the woman said unto Joab, “Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall.”_ =Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom.= ... (_c_) The famous passage in which the wisdom of King Solomon is extolled, _1 Kings_ 4^{29-34}: _And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore_. =And Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the East= (_i.e._ Arabia) =and all the wisdom of Egypt=. _For he was wiser than all men: than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all the nations round about._ =And he spake three thousand proverbs=: _and his songs were a thousand and five. And he spake of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall; he spake also of beasts and of fowl and of creeping things and of fishes._ (_d_) _Isaiah_ 29^{13, 14}: _And the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw nigh with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me and their fear of me is a commandment of men which hath been taught them; therefore behold I will again do a marvellous work among this people ... and_ =the wisdom of their wise men= _shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid_. (_e_) _Jeremiah_ 18^{18} (cp. 8^{8} and 9^{23}): _Then said they, Come and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor_ =counsel from the wise=, _nor the word from the prophet_.