2 Samuel 14:17-20

2 Samuel 14:17-20

[17] Then thine handmaid  said,  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:  therefore the LORD  thy God  will be with thee. [18] Then the king  answered  and said  unto the woman,  Hide  not from me, I pray thee, the thing  that I shall ask  thee. And the woman  said,  Let my lord  the king  now speak.  [19] And the king  said,  Is not the hand  of Joab  with thee in all this? And the woman  answered  and said,  As thy soul  liveth,  my lord  the king,  can  turn to the right hand  or to the left  from ought that my lord  the king  hath spoken:  for thy servant  Joab,  he bade  me, and he put  all these words  in the mouth  of thine handmaid:  [20] To  fetch about  this form  of speech  hath thy servant  Joab  done  this thing:  and my lord  is wise,  according to the wisdom  of an angel  of God,  to know  all things that are in the earth.