¹⁹ The king asked, “Was the hand of Joab with you in all of this?” The woman answered and said, “As your soul lives,^[a] my lord the king, surely one cannot go to the right or to the left from all that my lord the king has spoken. Yes, your servant Joab himself commanded me, and he put all of these words in the mouth of your servant. ²⁰ In order to change the situation,^[b] your servant Joab did this thing. But my lord has wisdom, as the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all that is on the earth.” ²¹ Then the king said to Joab, “Look, please, I will grant this thing. Go and bring back the young man Absalom.”