2 Samuel 14:20

In order that this form of speech might come about it was that thy servant Joab has framed this matter: and my lord is wise as is the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 said, Is not the hand of Joab in all this matter with thee? and the woman said to the king, As thy soul lives, my lord, O king, there is no turning to the right hand or to the left from all that my lord the king has spoken; for thy servant Joab himself charged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thy handmaid.

21And the king said to Joab, Behold now, I have done to thee according to this thy word: go, bring back the young man Absalom.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:5For God knew that in whatever day ye should eat of it your eyes would be opened, and ye would be as gods, knowing good and evil.

2 Samuel 5:23And David inquired of the Lord: and the Lord said, Thou shalt not go up to meet them: turn from them, and thou shalt meet them near the place of weeping.

2 Samuel 18:13so as to do no harm to his life: and nothing of the matter will be concealed from the king, and thou wilt set thyself against me.

2 Samuel 19:28And he has dealt deceitfully with thy servant to my lord the king: but my lord the king is as an angel of God, and do thou that which is good in thine eyes.

Job 38:16Or hast thou gone to the source of the sea, 1 And walked in the tracks of the deep? 1

Proverbs 29:5He that prepares a net in the way of his own friend, 1 Entangles his own feet in it. 1

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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