Bible verse

2 Samuel 14:1

Now Joab son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart longed for Absalom.
2 Samuel 14:1 · BSB

2 Samuel 14:1 in context

The verses around it, from 2 Samuel 14.

1 Now Joab son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart longed for Absalom.

2 So Joab sent to Tekoa to bring a wise woman from there. He told her, “Please pretend to be a mourner; put on clothes for mourning and do not anoint yourself with oil. Act like a woman who has mourned for the dead a long time.

3 Then go to the king and speak these words to him.” And Joab put the words in her mouth.

4 When the woman from Tekoa went to the king, she fell facedown in homage and said, “Help me, O king!”

5 “What troubles you?” the king asked her. “Indeed,” she said, “I am a widow, for my husband is dead.

Read all of 2 Samuel 14

2 Samuel 14:1 in other translations

KJV

Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart [was] toward Absalom.

ASV

Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was toward Absalom.

ERV

Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was toward Absalom.

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