1. And Joab the son of Sarvia, understanding that the king's heart was turned to Absalom,
2. Sent to Thecua, and fetched from thence a wise woman: and said to her: Feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on mourning apparel, and be not anointed with oil, that thou mayest be as a woman that had a long time been mourning for one dead.
3. And thou shalt go in to the king, and shalt speak to him in this manner. And Joab put the words in her mouth.