So Joab sent to (A)Tekoa and [a]brought a wise woman from there and said to her, “Please pretend to be a mourner, and put on mourning garments now, and do not (B)anoint yourself with oil, but be like a woman who has been mourning for the dead many days;

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 14:2 Lit took

Destruction of Jerusalem Impending

“Flee for safety, O sons of (A)Benjamin,
From the midst of Jerusalem!
Now blow a trumpet in Tekoa
And raise a signal over [a](B)Beth-haccerem;
For evil looks down from the (C)north,
And a great destruction.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 6:1 I.e. house of the vineyard