by way of the hillside behind him. 013:035 Jonadab said to the king, Behold, the king's sons are come: as your servant said, so it is. 013:036 It happened, as soon as he had made an end of speaking, that behold, the king's sons came, and lifted up their voice, and wept: and the king also and all his servants wept very sore. 013:037 But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai the son of Ammihur, king of Geshur. [David] mourned for his son every day. 013:038 So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years. 013:039 [the soul of] king David longed to go forth to Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead. 014:001 Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom. 014:002 Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched there a wise woman, and said to her, please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, Please, and don't anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has a long time mourned for the dead: 014:003 and go in to the king, and speak on this manner to him. So Joab put the words in her mouth. 014:004 When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king. 014:005 The king said to her, What ails you? She answered, Of a truth I am a widow, and my husband is dead. 014:006 Your handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him. 014:007 Behold, the whole family is risen against your handmaid, and they say, Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also. Thus will they quench my coal which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth. 014:008 The king said to the woman, Go to your house, and I will give charge concerning you. 014:009 The woman of Tekoa said to the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house; and the king and his throne be guiltless. 014:010 The king said, Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall not touch you any more. 014:011 Then said she, Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son. He said, As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of your son fall to the earth. 014:012 Then the woman said, Please let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king. He said, Say on. 014:013 The woman said, Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? for in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished one.