19. The 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 urged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your servant;
20. to 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.”
21. The king said to Joab, “Behold now, I have done this thing. Go therefore, and bring the young man Absalom back.”