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II Samuel Chapter 14

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In this chapter David is driven to flee Jerusalem after his son Absalom rebels against him and the people turn against him. The chapter shows David's suffering, his decision to hide in the cave, and the consequences of his actions on his family and the nation.

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(1) Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom.
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II Samuel 2:18I Chronicles 2:16II Samuel 13:39II Samuel 18:33II Samuel 19:2II Samuel 19:4Proverbs 29:26

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I Kings 7:25II Chronicles 4:4Ezekiel 48:10Ezekiel 48:17Zechariah 14:4Esther 8:8

(2) And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:
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II Chronicles 11:6II Chronicles 20:20Nehemiah 3:5Nehemiah 3:27Jeremiah 6:1Amos 1:1II Samuel 11:26Ruth 3:3Psalms 104:15Ecclesiastes 9:8Matthew 6:17

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Leviticus 7:12I Kings 2:28

(3) And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.
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II Samuel 14:19Exodus 4:15Numbers 23:5Deuteronomy 18:18Isaiah 51:16Isaiah 59:21Jeremiah 1:9

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I Kings 2:28

(4) And when the woman of Tekoah spake to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.
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II Samuel 1:2I Samuel 20:41I Samuel 25:23II Kings 6:26II Kings 6:27II Kings 6:28Job 29:12Job 29:13Job 29:14Luke 18:3Luke 18:4Luke 18:5

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Judges 5:27

(5) And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.
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II Samuel 12:1II Samuel 12:2II Samuel 12:3Judges 9:8Judges 9:9Judges 9:10Judges 9:11Judges 9:12Judges 9:13Judges 9:14Judges 9:15

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Romans 7:2

(6) And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and slew him.
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Genesis 4:8Exodus 2:13Deuteronomy 22:26Deuteronomy 22:27

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Exodus 9:25Revelation 8:12Ruth 3:13Genesis 23:17Exodus 22:5Ruth 2:3

(7) And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; 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.
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Genesis 4:14Numbers 35:19Deuteronomy 19:12Genesis 27:45Deuteronomy 25:6II Samuel 12:17

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Numbers 26:58Romans 7:2Numbers 3:27I Samuel 17:35II Samuel 14:6Matthew 10:28

(8) And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I will give charge concerning thee.
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II Samuel 12:5II Samuel 12:6II Samuel 16:4Job 29:16Proverbs 18:13Isaiah 11:3Isaiah 11:4

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Jeremiah 16:3Jeremiah 27:19I Chronicles 23:32

(9) And the woman of Tekoah 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.
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Genesis 27:13I Samuel 25:24Matthew 27:25II Samuel 3:28II Samuel 3:29Numbers 35:33Deuteronomy 21:1Deuteronomy 21:2Deuteronomy 21:3Deuteronomy 21:4Deuteronomy 21:5Deuteronomy 21:6

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Numbers 18:1Numbers 5:31Revelation 4:6

(10) And the king said, Whosoever saith ought unto thee, bring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more.
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Matthew 5:22

(11) Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.
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Genesis 14:22Genesis 24:2Genesis 24:3Genesis 31:50I Samuel 20:42Numbers 35:19Numbers 35:27Deuteronomy 19:4Deuteronomy 19:5Deuteronomy 19:6Deuteronomy 19:7Deuteronomy 19:8

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Psalms 106:23Hosea 4:5Genesis 18:28Genesis 19:13Numbers 33:52Deuteronomy 9:3

(12) Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak one word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.
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I Samuel 25:24Genesis 18:27Genesis 18:32Genesis 44:18Jeremiah 12:1Acts 26:1

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(13) And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished.
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II Samuel 12:7I Kings 20:40I Kings 20:41I Kings 20:42Luke 7:42Luke 7:43Luke 7:44II Samuel 7:8Judges 20:2II Samuel 13:37II Samuel 13:38

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II Samuel 14:14Deuteronomy 8:3Job 8:3Psalms 80:13Proverbs 24:12Isaiah 1:3

(14) For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
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II Samuel 11:25Job 30:23Job 34:15Psalms 90:3Psalms 90:10Ecclesiastes 3:19Ecclesiastes 3:20Ecclesiastes 9:5Hebrews 9:27Job 14:7Job 14:8Job 14:9

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Isaiah 28:24II Samuel 14:13Ezekiel 3:20Deuteronomy 8:3Job 8:3Job 23:9

(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 thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid.
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I Samuel 1:11Ruth 3:9I Samuel 25:24Jeremiah 42:11Ezekiel 2:6

(16) For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.
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Numbers 33:54Numbers 36:3Numbers 36:4II Samuel 14:7I Samuel 1:11Numbers 26:54

(17) Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD thy God will be with thee.
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II Samuel 14:20II Samuel 19:27I Samuel 29:9Proverbs 27:21Proverbs 29:5I Kings 3:9I Kings 3:28Job 6:30I Corinthians 2:14I Corinthians 2:15Hebrews 5:14

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I Samuel 1:11II Samuel 24:16I Chronicles 21:15

(18) Then the king answered and said unto the woman, Hide not from me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall ask thee. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.
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I Samuel 3:17I Samuel 3:18Jeremiah 38:14Jeremiah 38:25

(19) 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:
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II Samuel 3:27II Samuel 3:29II Samuel 3:34II Samuel 11:14II Samuel 11:15I Kings 2:5I Kings 2:6II Samuel 11:11I Samuel 1:26I Samuel 17:55I Samuel 20:3I Samuel 25:26

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I Kings 2:28II Samuel 2:14II Samuel 3:23II Samuel 3:29II Samuel 11:6II Samuel 14:22

(20) 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.
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II Samuel 5:23II Samuel 14:17II Samuel 19:27Job 32:21Job 32:22Proverbs 26:28Proverbs 29:5Genesis 3:5Job 38:16Job 38:17Job 38:18Job 38:19

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II Samuel 24:16I Chronicles 21:15II Samuel 20:22I Kings 4:30I Kings 2:28

(21) And the king said unto Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing: go therefore, bring the young man Absalom again.
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II Samuel 14:11I Samuel 14:39Mark 6:26

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II Samuel 18:5I Kings 2:28Deuteronomy 22:6II Samuel 2:14II Samuel 18:12II Samuel 18:29

(22) 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.
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II Samuel 19:39Nehemiah 11:2Job 29:11Job 31:20Proverbs 31:28Genesis 6:8Exodus 33:16Exodus 33:17Ruth 2:2I Samuel 20:3

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(23) So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
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II Samuel 3:3II Samuel 13:37

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I Kings 2:28II Samuel 13:29II Samuel 14:31II Samuel 14:32II Samuel 14:33II Samuel 18:5

(24) 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.
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II Samuel 14:28II Samuel 3:13Genesis 43:3Exodus 10:28Revelation 22:4

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Esther 8:8II Samuel 13:23II Samuel 13:29Esther 3:3Esther 3:12Ezekiel 33:11

(25) 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.
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I Samuel 9:2I Samuel 16:7Proverbs 31:30Matthew 23:27Deuteronomy 28:35Job 2:7Isaiah 1:6Ephesians 5:27

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Job 2:7Ezekiel 1:7Numbers 6:14II Samuel 18:33

(26) 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.
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II Samuel 18:9Isaiah 3:24I Corinthians 11:14Genesis 23:16Leviticus 19:36Ezekiel 45:9Ezekiel 45:10Ezekiel 45:11Ezekiel 45:12Ezekiel 45:13Ezekiel 45:14

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(27) And unto Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a fair countenance.
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II Samuel 18:18Job 18:16Job 18:17Job 18:18Job 18:19Isaiah 14:22Jeremiah 22:30II Samuel 13:1

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(28) So Absalom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem, and saw not the king's face.
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II Samuel 13:23Esther 8:8II Samuel 13:29Esther 3:3Esther 3:12II Samuel 18:33

(29) 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.
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II Samuel 14:30II Samuel 14:31Esther 1:12Matthew 22:3

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(30) 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.
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II Samuel 13:28II Samuel 13:29Judges 15:4Judges 15:5I Kings 21:9I Kings 21:10I Kings 21:11I Kings 21:12I Kings 21:13I Kings 21:14II Kings 9:33II Kings 10:6

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Genesis 23:17Exodus 9:25Exodus 22:5Genesis 2:5Genesis 49:30Genesis 50:13

(31) Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom unto his house, and said unto him, Wherefore have thy servants set my field on fire?
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I Kings 2:28Genesis 23:17Exodus 9:25Exodus 22:5II Samuel 13:29II Samuel 14:23

(32) 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.
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Exodus 14:12Exodus 16:3Exodus 17:3Genesis 3:12I Samuel 15:13Psalms 36:2Proverbs 28:13Jeremiah 2:22Jeremiah 2:23Jeremiah 8:12Matthew 25:44Romans 3:19

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(33) So Joab came to the king, and told him: and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king: and the king kissed Absalom.
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Genesis 27:26Genesis 33:4Genesis 45:15Luke 15:20

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