2 Samuel 14:10   (Read all of 2 Samuel 14)

The king replied, "If anyone says anything to you, bring them to me, and they will not bother you again."

2 Samuel 14:11   (Read all of 2 Samuel 14)

She said, "Then let the king invoke the Lord his God to prevent the avenger of blood from adding to the destruction, so that my son will not be destroyed." "As surely as the Lord lives," he said, "not one hair of your son's head will fall to the ground."

2 Samuel 14:12   (Read all of 2 Samuel 14)

Then the woman said, "Let your servant speak a word to my lord the king." "Speak," he replied.

2 Samuel 14:13   (Read all of 2 Samuel 14)

The woman said, "Why then have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself, for the king has not brought back his banished son?

2 Samuel 14:15   (Read all of 2 Samuel 14)

"And now I have come to say this to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. Your servant thought, 'I will speak to the king; perhaps he will grant his servant's request.

2 Samuel 14:17   (Read all of 2 Samuel 14)

"And now your servant says, 'May the word of my lord the king secure my inheritance, for my lord the king is like an angel of God in discerning good and evil. May the Lord your God be with you.' "

2 Samuel 14:18   (Read all of 2 Samuel 14)

Then the king said to the woman, "Don't keep from me the answer to what I am going to ask you." "Let my lord the king speak," the woman said.

2 Samuel 14:19   (Read all of 2 Samuel 14)

The king asked, "Isn't the hand of Joab with you in all this?" The woman answered, "As surely as you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything my lord the king says. Yes, it was your servant Joab who instructed me to do this and who put all these words into the mouth of your servant.

2 Samuel 14:20   (Read all of 2 Samuel 14)

Your servant Joab did this to change the present situation. My lord has wisdom like that of an angel of God-he knows everything that happens in the land."

2 Samuel 14:21   (Read all of 2 Samuel 14)

The king said to Joab, "Very well, I will do it. Go, bring back the young man Absalom."

2 Samuel 14:22   (Read all of 2 Samuel 14)

Joab fell with his face to the ground to pay him honor, and he blessed the king. Joab said, "Today your servant knows that he has found favor in your eyes, my lord the king, because the king has granted his servant's request."

2 Samuel 14:31   (Read all of 2 Samuel 14)

Then Joab did go to Absalom's house, and he said to him, "Why have your servants set my field on fire?"

2 Samuel 14:32   (Read all of 2 Samuel 14)

Absalom said to Joab, "Look, I sent word to you and said, 'Come here so I can send you to the king to ask, "Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me if I were still there!" ' Now then, I want to see the king's face, and if I am guilty of anything, let him put me to death."

2 Samuel 15:2   (Read all of 2 Samuel 15)

He would get up early and stand by the side of the road leading to the city gate. Whenever anyone came with a complaint to be placed before the king for a decision, Absalom would call out to him, "What town are you from?" He would answer, "Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel."

2 Samuel 15:3   (Read all of 2 Samuel 15)

Then Absalom would say to him, "Look, your claims are valid and proper, but there is no representative of the king to hear you."

2 Samuel 15:8   (Read all of 2 Samuel 15)

While your servant was living at Geshur in Aram, I made this vow: 'If the Lord takes me back to Jerusalem, I will worship the Lord in Hebron. ' "

2 Samuel 15:10   (Read all of 2 Samuel 15)

Then Absalom sent secret messengers throughout the tribes of Israel to say, "As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpets, then say, 'Absalom is king in Hebron.' "

2 Samuel 15:15   (Read all of 2 Samuel 15)

The king's officials answered him, "Your servants are ready to do whatever our lord the king chooses."

2 Samuel 15:19   (Read all of 2 Samuel 15)

The king said to Ittai the Gittite, "Why should you come along with us? Go back and stay with King Absalom. You are a foreigner, an exile from your homeland.

2 Samuel 15:20   (Read all of 2 Samuel 15)

You came only yesterday. And today shall I make you wander about with us, when I do not know where I am going? Go back, and take your people with you. May the Lord show you kindness and faithfulness."

2 Samuel 15:21   (Read all of 2 Samuel 15)

But Ittai replied to the king, "As surely as the Lord lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king may be, whether it means life or death, there will your servant be."

2 Samuel 15:26   (Read all of 2 Samuel 15)

But if he says, 'I am not pleased with you,' then I am ready; let him do to me whatever seems good to him."

2 Samuel 15:27   (Read all of 2 Samuel 15)

The king also said to Zadok the priest, "Do you understand? Go back to the city with my blessing. Take your son Ahimaaz with you, and also Abiathar's son Jonathan. You and Abiathar return with your two sons.

2 Samuel 15:28   (Read all of 2 Samuel 15)

I will wait at the fords in the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me."