BRAGADAYJAH
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David perceived that the woman was not acting alone.
David the King promised the woman with whom he spoke that no harm would come to her son; but the woman was not finished. “Let your servant O king speak one more word to you,” she said and the king told her to speak on. And the woman asked the king, “How is it that you have thought such a thing against the people of God? For you O king speaks as one who is faulty in that the king has not sought to fetch home again his own banished. For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground which cannot be gathered up again, neither doth God respect any person; yet He does make a way for his banished not to be expelled from him. Now therefore as I am come to speak about this thing unto my lord, the king it is because the people have made me afraid. And thy handmaiden said I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid. For the king will hear to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of men who would destroy me and my son, out of the inheritance of God. So then thy handmaid thought to herself the word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad, for the Lord thy God will be with thee.” In saying all that she said, the woman clearly overplayed her hand; for David was no fool and he asked her to tell him the truth, and to tell him whether or not the hand of Joab was with her in this approach to the king. And the woman confessed that Joab had put her up to coming to speak to the king as she had done.
David perceived that the woman was not acting alone.
David the King promised the woman with whom he spoke that no harm would come to her son; but the woman was not finished. “Let your servant O king speak one more word to you,” she said and the king told her to speak on. And the woman asked the king, “How is it that you have thought such a thing against the people of God? For you O king speaks as one who is faulty in that the king has not sought to fetch home again his own banished. For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground which cannot be gathered up again, neither doth God respect any person; yet He does make a way for his banished not to be expelled from him. Now therefore as I am come to speak about this thing unto my lord, the king it is because the people have made me afraid. And thy handmaiden said I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid. For the king will hear to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of men who would destroy me and my son, out of the inheritance of God. So then thy handmaid thought to herself the word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad, for the Lord thy God will be with thee.” In saying all that she said, the woman clearly overplayed her hand; for David was no fool and he asked her to tell him the truth, and to tell him whether or not the hand of Joab was with her in this approach to the king. And the woman confessed that Joab had put her up to coming to speak to the king as she had done.
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