2 Samuel 14:20

Your servant Joab has done this thing in order to bring around the appearance of the thing, and my lord [is] wise, according to the wisdom of a messenger of God, to know all that [is] in the land.”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

19And the king says, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” And the woman answers and says, “Your soul lives, my lord, O king, none [turn] to the right or to the left from all that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab commanded me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your maidservant.

21And the king says to Joab, “Now behold, you have done this thing; and go, bring back the young man Absalom.”

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Cross References

Genesis 3:5for God knows that in the day of your eating of it—your eyes have been opened, and you have been as God, knowing good and evil.”

2 Samuel 5:23and David asks of YHWH, and He says, “You do not go up, turn around to their rear, and you have come to them from the front [[ or in front]] of the mulberries,

2 Samuel 18:13or I had done a vain thing against my soul, and no matter is hid from the king, and you would station yourself opposite from [me].”

2 Samuel 19:28for all the house of my father have been nothing except men of death before my lord the king, and you set your servant among those eating at your table, and what right do I have anymore—even to cry anymore to the king?”

Job 38:16Have you come to springs of the sea? And in searching the deep || Have you walked up and down?

Proverbs 29:5A man taking a portion above his neighbor, || Spreads a net for his own steps.

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 14:2-21

Joab's Stratagem in Absalom's Favour; The Art of Joab. ( b. c. 1029.) 1 Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom. 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: 3 And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab put the words in her mouth. 4 And when the woman… Read the whole commentary →

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