In Context

1 Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom.

2 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 mourned a long time for the dead.

3 Go in to the king, and speak like this to him.| So Joab put the words in her mouth.

2 Samuel 14:1 in Other Translations