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1스루야의 아들 요압이 왕의 마음이 압살롬에게로 향하는줄 알고 2드고아에 보내어 거기서 슬기있는 여인 하나를 데려다가 이르되 청컨대 너는 상제 된 것처럼 상복을 입고 기름을 바르지 말고 죽은 사람을 위하여 오래 슬퍼하는 여인 같이 하고 3왕께 들어가서 여차여차히 말하라고 할 말을 그 입에 넣어주니라 4드고아 여인이 왕께 고할 때에 얼굴을 땅에 대고 엎드려 가로되 왕이여 도우소서 5왕이 저에게 이르되 무슨 일이냐 대답하되 나는 참 과부니이다 남편은 죽고 6아들 둘이 있더니 저희가 들에서 싸우나 말려 줄 사람이 아무도 없으므로 저가 이를 쳐 죽인지라 7온 족속이 일어나서 왕의 계집종 나를 핍박하여 말하기를 그 동생을 죽인 자를 내어 놓으라 우리가 그 동생 죽인 죄를 갚아 저를 죽여 사자 될 것까지 끊겠노라 하오니 그러한즉 저희가 내게 남아 있는 숯불을 꺼서 내 남편의 이름과 씨를 세상에 끼쳐두지 아니하겠나이다 8왕이 여인에게 이르되 네 집으로 가라 내가 너를 위하여 명령을 내리리라 9드고아 여인이 왕께 고하되 내 주 왕이여 그 죄는 나와 내 아비의 집으로 돌릴 것이니 왕과 왕위는 허물이 없으리이다 10왕이 가로되 누구든지 네게 말하는 자를 내게로 데려 오라 저가 다시는 너를 건드리지도 못하리라 11여인이 가로되 청컨대 왕은 왕의 하나님 여호와를 생각하사 원수 갚는 자로 더 죽이지 못하게 하옵소서 내 아들을 죽일까 두려워 하나이다 왕이 가로되 여호와의 사심을 가리켜 맹세하노니 네 아들의 머리카락 하나라도 땅에 떨어지지 아니하리라 12여인이 가로되 청컨대 계집종을 용납하여 한 말씀으로 내 주 왕께 여쭙게 하옵소서 가로되 말하라 13여인이 가로되 그러면 어찌하여 왕께서 하나님의 백성에게 대하여 이같은 도모를 하셨나이까 이 말씀을 하셨으니 왕께서 죄 있는 사람 같이 되심은 그 내어쫓긴 자를 집으로 돌아오게 아니하심이니이다 14우리는 필경 죽으리니 땅에 쏟아진 물을 다시 모으지 못함 같을 것이오나 하나님은 생명을 빼앗지 아니하시고 방책을 베푸사 내어쫓긴 자로 하나님께 버린 자가 되지 않게 하시나이다 15이제 내가 와서 내 주 왕께 이 말씀을 여쭙는 것은 백성들이 나를 두렵게 하므로 계집종이 스스로 말하기를 내가 왕께 여쭈면 혹시 종의 청하는 것을 시행하실 것이라 16왕께서 들으시고 나와 내 아들을 함께 하나님의 산업에서 끊을 자의 손에서 종을 구원하시리라 함이니이다 17계집종이 또 스스로 말하기를 내 주 왕의 말씀이 나의 위로가 되기를 원한다 하였사오니 이는 내 주 왕께서 하나님의 사자 같이 선과 악을 분간하심이니이다 원컨대 왕의 하나님 여호와께서 왕과 같이 계시옵소서 18왕이 그 여인에게 대답하여 이르되 내가 네게 묻는 것을 숨기지 말라 여인이 가로되 내 주 왕은 말씀하옵소서 19왕이 가로되 이 모든 일에 요압이 너와 함께 하였느냐 여인이 대답하여 가로되 내 주 왕의 사심을 가리켜 맹세하옵나니 무릇 내 주 왕의 말씀을 좌로나 우로나 옮길 자가 없으리이다 왕의 종 요압이 내게 명하였고 저가 이 모든 말을 왕의 계집종의 입에 넣어주었사오니 20이는 왕의 종 요압이 이 일의 형편을 변하려 하여 이렇게 함이니이다 내 주 왕의 지혜는 하나님의 사자의 지혜와 같아서 땅에 있는 일을 다 아시나이다 하니라 21왕이 요압에게 이르되 내가 이 일을 허락하였으니 가서 소년 압살롬을 데려오라 22요압이 땅에 엎드려 절하고 왕을 위하여 복을 빌고 가로되 내 주 왕이여 종의 구함을 허락하시니 종이 왕 앞에서 은혜 받은 줄을 오늘날 아나이다 하고 23일어나 그술로 가서 압살롬을 데리고 예루살렘으로 오니 24왕이 가로되 저를 그 집으로 물러가게 하고 내 얼굴을 보지 말게 하라 하매 압살롬이 자기 집으로 가고 왕의 얼굴을 보지 못하니라 25온 이스라엘 가운데 압살롬 같이 아름다움으로 크게 칭찬 받는 자가 없었으니 저는 발바닥부터 정수리까지 흠이 없음이라 26그 머리털이 무거우므로 년말마다 깎았으며 그 머리털을 깎을 때에 달아본즉 왕의 저울로 이백 세겔이었더라 27압살롬이 아들 셋과 딸 하나를 낳았는데 딸의 이름은 다말이라 얼굴이 아름다운 여자더라 28압살롬이 이태 동안을 예루살렘에 있으되 왕의 얼굴을 보지 못하였으므로 29요압을 왕께 보내려 하여 사람을 보내어 부르되 오지 아니하고 또 다시 보내되 오지 아니하는지라 30압살롬이 그 종에게 이르되 보라 요압의 밭이 내 밭 근처에 있고 거기 보리가 있으니 가서 불을 놓으라 압살롬의 종들이 그 밭에 불을 놓았더니 31요압이 일어나 압살롬의 집으로 와서 압살롬에게 이르되 어찌하여 네 종들이 내 밭에 불을 놓았느냐 32압살롬이 요압에게 대답하되 내가 일찍 사람을 보내어 너를 이리로 청한 것은 내가 너를 왕께 보내어 고하게 하기를 어찌하여 내가 그술에서 돌아오게 되었나이까 이때까지 거기 있는 것이 내게 나았으리이다 하려함이로다 이제는 네가 나로 왕의 얼굴을 보게 하라 내가 만일 죄가 있으면 왕이 나를 죽이시는 것이 가하니라 33요압이 왕께 나아가서 그 말을 고하매 왕이 압살롬을 부르니 저가 왕께 나아가 그 앞에서 얼굴을 땅에 대어 절하매 왕이 압살롬과 입을 맞추니라

1Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was toward Absalom. 2Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched there a wise woman, and said to her, “Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don’t anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead. 3Go in to the king, and speak like this to him.” So Joab put the words in her mouth. 4When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, showed respect, and said, “Help, O king!” 5The king said to her, “What ails you?” She answered, “Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead. 6Your handmaid had two sons, and they both fought together in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him. 7Behold, the whole family has risen against your handmaid, and they say, ‘Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.’ Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.” 8The king said to the woman, “Go to your house, and I will give a command concerning you.” 9The woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father’s house; and the king and his throne be guiltless.” 10The king said, “Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall not touch you any more.” 11Then she said, “Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son.” He said, “As Yahweh lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth.” 12Then the woman said, “Please let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king.” He said, “Say on.” 13The woman said, “Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished one. 14For we must die, and are like water split on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him. 15Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and your handmaid said, ‘I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.’ 16For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God. 17Then your handmaid said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.’” 18Then the king answered the woman, “Please don’t hide anything from me that I ask you.” The woman said, “Let my lord the king now speak.” 19The king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” The woman answered, “As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab, he urged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid; 20to change the face of the matter has your servant Joab done this thing. My lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.” 21The king said to Joab, “Behold now, I have done this thing. Go therefore, bring the young man Absalom back.” 22Joab fell to the ground on his face, showed respect, and blessed the king. Joab said, “Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord, king, in that the king has performed the request of his servant.” 23So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem. 24The king said, “Let him return to his own house, but let him not see my face.” So Absalom returned to his own house, and didn’t see the king’s face. 25Now in all Israel there was no one to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no defect in him. 26When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year’s end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king’s weight. 27To Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a beautiful face. 28Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem; and he didn’t see the king’s face. 29Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king; but he would not come to him: and he sent again a second time, but he would not come. 30Therefore he said to his servants, “Behold, Joab’s field is near mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire.” Absalom’s servants set the field on fire. 31Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom to his house, and said to him, “Why have your servants set my field on fire?” 32Absalom answered Joab, “Behold, I sent to you, saying, ‘Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, “Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king’s face; and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me.”’” 33So Joab came to the king, and told him; and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king: and the king kissed Absalom.

1Als nu Joab, de zoon van Zeruja, merkte, dat des konings hart over Absalom was; 2Zo zond Joab heen naar Thekoa, en nam van daar een wijze vrouw; en hij zeide tot haar: Stel u toch, alsof gij rouw droegt, en trek nu rouwklederen aan, en zalf u niet met olie, en wees als een vrouw, die nu vele dagen rouw gedragen heeft over een dode; 3En ga in tot den koning, en spreek tot hem naar dit woord. En Joab legde de woorden in haar mond. 4En de Thekoietische vrouw zeide tot den koning, als zij op haar aangezicht ter aarde was gevallen, en zich nedergebogen had, zo zeide zij: Behoud, o koning! 5En de koning zeide tot haar: Wat is u? En zij zeide: Zekerlijk, ik ben een weduwvrouw, en mijn man is gestorven. 6Nu had uw dienstmaagd twee zonen, en deze beiden twistten in het veld, en er was geen scheider tussen hen; en de een sloeg den ander, en doodde hem. 7En zie, het ganse geslacht is opgestaan tegen uw dienstmaagd, en hebben gezegd: Geef dien hier, die zijn broeder geslagen heeft, dat wij hem voor de ziel zijns broeders, dien hij doodgeslagen heeft, doden, en ook den erfgenaam verdelgen; alzo zullen zij mijn kool, die overgebleven is, uitblussen, opdat zij mijn man geen naam noch overblijfsel laten op den aardbodem. 8Toen zeide de koning tot deze vrouw: Ga naar uw huis, en ik zal voor u gebieden. 9En de Thekoietische vrouw zeide tot den koning: Mijn heer koning, de ongerechtigheid zij op mij en op mijns vaders huis; de koning daarentegen, en zijn stoel, zij onschuldig. 10En de koning zeide: Spreekt iemand tegen u, zo breng hem tot mij; en hij zal u voortaan niet meer aantasten. 11En zij zeide: De koning gedenke toch aan den HEERE, uw God, dat de bloedwrekers niet te vele worden om te verderven, dat zij mijn zoon niet verdelgen. Toen zeide hij: Zo waarachtig als de HEERE leeft, indien er een van de haren uws zoons op de aarde zal vallen! 12Toen zeide deze vrouw: Laat toch uw dienstmaagd een woord tot mijn heer den koning spreken. En hij zeide: Spreek. 13En de vrouw zeide: Waarom hebt gij dan alzulks tegen Gods volk gedaan? Want daaruit, dat de koning dit woord gesproken heeft, is hij als een schuldige, dewijl de koning zijn verstotene niet wederhaalt. 14Want wij zullen den dood sterven, en wezen als water, dat, ter aarde uitgestort zijnde, niet verzameld wordt. God dan zal de ziel niet wegnemen, maar Hij zal gedachten denken, dat Hij den verstotene niet van Zich verstote. 15Nu dan, dat ik gekomen ben, om ditzelve woord tot den koning, mijn heer, te spreken, is omdat het volk mij vreesachtig gemaakt heeft; zo zeide uw dienstmaagd: Ik zal nu tot den koning spreken; misschien zal de koning het woord zijner dienstmaagd doen. 16Want de koning zal horen, om zijn dienstmaagd te redden van de hand des mans, die voorheeft mij en mijn zoon te zamen van Gods erve te verdelgen. 17Wijders zeide uw dienstmaagd: Het woord mijns heren, des konings, zij toch tot rust; want gelijk een Engel Gods, alzo is mijn heer de koning, om te horen het goede en het kwade; en de HEERE, uw God, zal met u zijn. 18Toen antwoordde de koning, en zeide tot de vrouw: Verberg nu niet voor mij de zaak, die ik u vragen zal. En de vrouw zeide: Mijn heer de koning spreke toch. 19En de koning zeide: Is Joabs hand met u in dit alles? En de vrouw antwoordde en zeide: Zo waarachtig als uw ziel leeft, mijn heer koning, indien iemand ter rechter- of ter linkerhand zou kunnen afwijken van alles, wat mijn heer de koning gesproken heeft; want uw knecht Joab heeft het mij geboden, en die heeft al deze woorden in den mond uwer dienstmaagd gelegd; 20Dat ik de gestalte dezer zaak alzo omwenden zou, zulks heeft uw knecht Joab gedaan; doch mijn heer is wijs, naar de wijsheid van een Engel Gods, om te merken alles, wat op de aarde is. 21Toen zeide de koning tot Joab: Zie nu, ik heb deze zaak gedaan; zo ga henen, haal den jongeling Absalom weder. 22Toen viel Joab op zijn aangezicht ter aarde, en boog zich, en dankte den koning; en Joab zeide: Heden heeft uw knecht gemerkt, dat ik genade gevonden heb in uw ogen, mijn heer koning! Omdat de koning het woord van zijn knecht gedaan heeft. 23Alzo maakte zich Joab op, en toog naar Gesur; en hij bracht Absalom te Jeruzalem. 24En de koning zeide: Dat hij in zijn huis kere, en mijn aangezicht niet zie. Alzo keerde Absalom in zijn huis, en zag des konings aangezicht niet. 25Nu was er in gans Israel geen man zo schoon als Absalom, zeer te prijzen; van zijn voetzool af tot zijn hoofdschedel toe was er geen gebrek in hem. 26En als hij zijn hoofd beschoor, (nu geschiedde het ten einde van elk jaar, dat hij het beschoor, omdat het hem te zwaar was, zo beschoor hij het), zo woog het haar zijns hoofds tweehonderd sikkelen, naar des konings gewicht. 27Ook werden Absalom drie zonen geboren, en een dochter, welker naam was Thamar; deze was een vrouw, schoon van aanzien. 28Alzo bleef Absalom twee volle jaren te Jeruzalem, dat hij des konings aangezicht niet zag. 29Daarom zond Absalom tot Joab, dat hij hem tot den koning zond; maar hij wilde niet tot hem komen. Zo zond hij nog ten anderen male; evenwel wilde hij niet komen. 30Zo zeide hij tot zijn knechten: Ziet, het stuk akkers van Joab is aan de zijde van het mijne, en hij heeft gerst daarop; gaat heen, en steekt het aan met vuur, en Absaloms knechten staken dat stuk akkers aan met vuur. 31Toen maakte zich Joab op en kwam tot Absalom in het huis, en zeide tot hem: Waarom hebben uw knechten het stuk akkers, dat mijn is, met vuur aangestoken? 32En Absalom zeide tot Joab: Zie, ik heb tot u gezonden, zeggende: Kom herwaarts, dat ik u tot den koning zende, om te zeggen: Waarom ben ik van Gesur gekomen? Het ware mij goed, dat ik nog daar ware; nu dan, laat mij het aangezicht des konings zien; is er dan nog een misdaad in mij, zo dode hij mij. 33Toen ging Joab in tot den koning, en zeide het hem aan. Toen riep hij Absalom, en hij kwam tot den koning in, en boog zich voor hem op zijn aangezicht ter aarde, voor des konings aangezicht; en de koning kuste Absalom.