10:014:019 And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab
with thee in all
this?
And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth,
my
lord
the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the
left
from
ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy
servant
Joab,
he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth
of
thine
handmaid:
10:014:020 To fetch about this form of speech hath
thy servant Joab done
this
thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom
of an
angel
of God, to know all things that are in the earth.
10:014:021 And the king said unto Joab, Behold now,
I have done this
thing:
go therefore, bring the young man Absalom again.
10:014:022 And Joab fell to the ground on his face,
and bowed himself,
and
thanked the king: and Joab said, To day thy servant
knoweth
that I have found grace in thy sight, my lord, O king,
in
that the king hath fulfilled the request of his servant.
10:014:023 So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought
Absalom to
Jerusalem.
10:014:024 And the king said, Let him turn to his
own house, and let him
not
see my face. So Absalom returned to his own house,
and saw
not
the king’s face.
10:014:025 But in all Israel there was none to be
so much praised as
Absalom
for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even
to the
crown
of his head there was no blemish in him.
10:014:026 And when he polled his head, (for it was
at every year’s end
that
he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him,
therefore
he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at
two
hundred shekels after the king’s weight.
10:014:027 And unto Absalom there were born three
sons, and one daughter,
whose
name was Tamar: she was a woman of a fair countenance.
10:014:028 So Absalom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem,
and saw not the
king’s
face.
10:014:029 Therefore Absalom sent for Joab, to have
sent him to the king;
but
he would not come to him: and when he sent again
the
second
time, he would not come.
10:014:030 Therefore he said unto his servants, See,
Joab’s field is near
mine,
and he hath barley there; go and set it on fire.
And
Absalom’s
servants set the field on fire.
10:014:031 Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom unto
his house, and said
unto
him, Wherefore have thy servants set my field on fire?
10:014:032 And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent
unto thee, saying,
Come
hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say,
Wherefore
am I come from Geshur? it had been good for me to
have
been there still: now therefore let me see the
king’s
face;
and if there be any iniquity in me, let him kill me.


