1. Joab son of Zeruiah knew that King David missed Absalom very much.
2. So Joab sent messengers to Tekoa to bring a wise woman from there. Joab said to this wise woman, “Please pretend to be very sad. Put on sackcloth. Don’t dress up. Act like a woman who has been crying many days for someone who died.
3. Go to the king and talk to him using these words that I tell you.” Then Joab told the wise woman what to say.
4. Then the woman from Tekoa talked to the king. She bowed with her face to the ground. Then she said, “King, please help me!”