2 Samuel 14:19-21

Common English Bible

¹⁹ So the king said, “Has Joab put you up to this?”

The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my master and king, no one can deviate a bit from whatever my master and king says. Yes, it was your servant Joab who directed me, and it was Joab who told your female servant to say all these things. ²⁰ Your servant Joab did this to change the way things look.^[a] But my master’s wisdom is like the wisdom of one of God’s own messengers—he knows everything that takes place in the land.”

²¹ So the king said to Joab, “All right then. I will do it. Go and bring back my boy Absalom.”