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We'll now go to 2 Samuel 14 with those feelings in mind and I want to read through all the

way through to verse 24 and then 28. So stick with me here.

Joab, son of Zeroy, knew that the king's heart longed for Absalom. So Joab sent someone

to Tukoya and had a wise woman brought from there. He said to her, pretend you are in mourning.

Dress in mourning clothes and don't use any cosmetic lotions. Act like a woman who has spent

many days grieving for the dead. Then go to the king and speak these words to him and Joab

put the words in her mouth. When the woman from Tukoya went to the king, she fell with her face

to the ground to pay him honor. And she said, help me, oh, king. Interestingly, that means

Housanna. When we see Housanna, son of David, way, way down through the gospels when that cry was

given out on, on palm on that what we call Palm Sunday. That's the same words. Housanna,

oh, king, help me, oh, king. Save quickly, oh, king is what it means. Verse five, the king

asked her, what is troubling you? She said, I am indeed a widow. My husband is dead. Now she's

acting. I, your servant had two sons. They got into a fight with each other in the field. And no

one was there to separate them. Man, to call me not too long ago. And she said, Mother, have you

seen that cell phone commercial? I can't remember if it was Sprint or Verizon. She said, with those

two sisters fighting over that cell phone. And she said they start over, they knocked the cabinet

down on the floor. They knocked the cat. I mean, they are rolling over the cell's mother. It is

Melissa and I. And then when I saw it after that, I cried. I laughed so hard. I can, but here's

what we're talking about, sibling rivalry, but then it gets out of hand. They got into a fight with

each other in the field and no one was there to separate them. One struck the other and killed him.

Now the whole clan has risen up against your servant. They say, hand over the one who struck his

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