Then it happened on the seventh day that the child died. And David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Behold, while the child was still alive, we spoke to him and he did not listen to us. How then can we tell him that the child is dead, since he might do himself harm?”

However, he would not listen to her; since he was stronger than she, he violated her and slept with her.

But she said to him, “No, because this wrong in sending me away is greater than the other that you have done to me!” Yet he would not listen to her.

For the king will listen, to save his slave from the hand of the man who would eliminate both me and my son from the inheritance of God.’

Then Absalom would say to him, “See, your claims are good and right, but you have no one to listen to you on the part of the king.”

Then a wise woman called out from the city, “Listen, listen! Please tell Joab, ‘Come here that I may speak with you.’”

So he approached her, and the woman said, “Are you Joab?” And he answered, “I am.” Then she said to him, “Listen to the words of your slave.” And he said, “I am listening.”