¹⁶ Then a wise woman cried out from the city, “Hear, hear! Please say to Joab, ‘Come nearby, that I may speak with you.’ ”

² And Joab sent to ^(A)Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman, and said to her, “Please pretend to be a mourner, ^(B)and put on mourning apparel; do not anoint yourself with oil, but act like a woman who has been mourning a long time for the dead.

^14 (A)There was a little city with few men in it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great ^[a]snares around it. ¹⁵ Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that same poor man.

¹⁶ Then I said:

³² Then David said to Abigail: ^(A)“Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me! ³³ And blessed is your advice and blessed are you, because you have ^(B)kept me this day from coming to bloodshed and from avenging myself with my own hand.

³ The name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail. And she was a woman of good understanding and beautiful appearance; but the man was harsh and evil in his doings. He was of the house of ^(A)Caleb.