1. And Yo’aḇ son of Tseruyah knew that the heart of the sovereign was towards Aḇshalom.
2. And Yo’aḇ sent to Teqowa and brought from there a wise woman, and said to her, “Please pretend to be a mourner, and put on mourning garments, and do not anoint yourself with oil, but act like a woman who has been mourning a long time for the dead.
3. “Then you shall go to the sovereign and speak to him according to this word.” And Yo’aḇ put the words in her mouth.
4. And when the woman of Teqowa spoke to the sovereign, she fell on her face to the ground and did obeisance, and said, “Save, O sovereign!”
5. And the sovereign said to her, “What is your trouble?” And she answered, “Truly I am a widow, my husband is dead.
6. “And your female servant had two sons. And the two fought with each other in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one smote the other and killed him.
7. “And see, the entire clan has risen up against your female servant and said, ‘Give him who smote his brother, so that we put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed, and destroy the heir also.’ Thus they would extinguish my burning coal that is left, and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant on the earth.”