y the mouth of Absalom from the day
that he ravished his sister Thamar.

13:33. Now therefore let not my lord the king take this thing into his
heart, saying: All the king's sons are slain: for Ammon only is dead.

13:34. But Absalom fled away: and the young man that kept the watch,
lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold there came much people by a
by-way on the side of the mountain.

13:35. And Jonadab said to the king: Behold the king's sons are come: as
thy servant said, so it is.

13:36. And when he made an end of speaking, the king's sons also
appeared: and coming in they lifted up their voice, and wept: and the
king also and all his servants wept very much.

13:37. But Absalom fled, and went to Tholomai the son of Ammiud the king
of Gessur. And David mourned for his son every day.

13:38. And Absalom after he was fled, and come into Gessur, was there
three years. And king David ceased to pursue after Absalom, because he
was comforted concerning the death of Ammon.

2 Kings Chapter 14

Joab procureth Absalom's return, and his admittance to the king's
presence.

14:1. And Joab the son of Sarvia, understanding that the king's heart
was turned to Absalom,

14:2. Sent to Thecua, and fetched from thence a wise woman: and said to
her: Feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on mourning apparel, and be
not anointed with oil, that thou mayest be as a woman that had a long
time been mourning for one dead.

14:3. And thou shalt go in to the king, and shalt speak to him in this
manner. And Joab put the words in her mouth.

14:4. And when the woman of Thecua was come in to the king, she fell
before him upon the ground, and worshipped, and said: Save me, O king.

14:5. And the king said to her: What is the matter with thee? She
answered: Alas, I am a widow woman: for my husband is dead.

14:6. And thy handmaid had two sons: and they quarrelled with each other
in the field, and there was none to part them: and the one struck the
other, and slew him.

14:7. And behold the whole kindred rising against thy handmaid, saith:
Deliver him that hath slain his brother, that we may kill him for the
life of his brother, whom he slew, and that we may destroy the heir: and
they seek to quench my spark which is left, and will leave my husband no
name, nor remainder upon the earth.

14:8. And the king said to the woman: Go to thy house, and I will give
charge concerning thee.

14:9. And the woman of Thecua said to the k