1 Now Yo’av [Yehovah is father] the son of Tz’ruyah [balsam] perceived that the king’s heart [was] toward Avshalom [my father is peace].

2 And Yo’av [Yehovah is father] sent to T’koa [trumpet blast], and fetched there a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray youi, feign (to pretend to be; to disguise) yourself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not yourself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:

3 And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Yo’av [Yehovah is father] put the words in her mouth.

4 And when the woman of T’koa [trumpet blast] spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obesiance (bowing or kneeling in respect), and said, Help, O king.

5 And the king said unto her, What ails youi? And she answered, I [am] indeed a widow woman, and my husband is dead.

6 And youri female servant 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.

7 And, behold, the whole family is risen against youri female servant, and they said, Deliver him that struck his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he killed; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband [neither] name nor remainder upon the earth.

8 And the king said unto the woman, Go to youri house, and I will give charge concerning youi.

9 And the woman of T’koa [trumpet blast] said unto 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.

10 And the king said, Whosoever says [ought] unto youi, bring him to me, and he shall not touch youi anymore.

11 Then said she, I pray youi, let the king remember the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) youi God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], that youi would not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, [As] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) lives, there shall not one hair of youri son fall to (to do entirely, do wholly) the earth.

12 Then the woman said, Let youri female servant, I pray youi, speak [one] word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.

13 And the woman said, For what reason then have youi thought such a thing against the people of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]? for the king does speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king does not fetch home again his banished.

14 For we must needs die, and [are] as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither does God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] respect [any] person: yet does he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.

15 Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king, [it is] because the people have made me afraid: and youi female servant said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his female servant.

16 For the king will hear, to deliver his female servant out of the hand of the man [that would] destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

17 Then youri female servant said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an angel of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], so [is] my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) youri God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] will be with youi.

18 Then the king answered and said unto the woman, Hide not from me, I pray youi, the thing that I shall ask youi. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.

19 And the king said, [Is not] the hand of Yo’av [Yehovah is father] with youi in all this? And the woman answered and said, [As] youri soul lives, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king has spoken: for youri servant Yo’av [Yehovah is father], he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of youri female servant:

20 To fetch about this form of speech has youri servant Yo’av [Yehovah is father] done this thing: and my lord [is] wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], to know all [things] that [are] in the earth.

21 And the king said unto Yo’av [Yehovah is father], Behold now, I have done this thing: go therefore, bring the young man Avshalom [my father is peace] again.

22 And Yo’av [Yehovah is father] fell to the ground on his face, and bowed himself, and thanked the king: and Yo’av [Yehovah is father] said, To day youri servant knows that I have found grace in youri sight, my lord, O king, in that the king has fulfilled the request of his servant.

23 So Yo’av [Yehovah is father] arose and went to G’shur [proud beholder], and brought Avshalom [my father is peace] to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].

24 And the king said, Let him turn to his own house, and let him not see my face. So Avshalom [my father is peace] returned to his own house, and saw not the king’s face.

25 But in all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] there was none to be so much praised as Avshalom [my father is peace] for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.

26 And when he cut hair from 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.

27 And unto Avshalom [my father is peace] there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name [was] Tamar [palm-tree]: she was a woman of a fair Countenance (Face, appearance; show favor).

28 So Avshalom [my father is peace] dwelt two full years in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and saw not the king’s face.

29 Therefore Avshalom [my father is peace] sent for Yo’av [Yehovah is father], 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.

30 Therefore he said unto his servants, See, Yo’av [Yehovah is father]’s field is near my, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire. And Avshalom [my father is peace]’s servants set the field on fire.

31 Then Yo’av [Yehovah is father] arose, and came to Avshalom [my father is peace] unto [his] house, and said unto him, For what reason have youi servants set my field on fire?

32 And Avshalom [my father is peace] answered Yo’av [Yehovah is father], Behold, I sent unto youi, saying, Come here, that I may send youi to the king, to say, For what reason am I come from G’shur [proud beholder]? [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.

33 So Yo’av [Yehovah is father] came to the king, and told him: and when he had called for Avshalom [my father is peace], he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king: and the king kissed Avshalom [my father is peace].