And David said to him, “Your blood is on your head, because your own mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have finished off the Lord’s anointed.’”

Then go to the king and speak to him in this way.” So Joab put the words in her mouth.

So the king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” And the woman replied, “As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken. Indeed, it was your servant Joab who commanded me, and it was he who put all these words in the mouth of your servant.

And the woman took a cover and spread it over the well’s mouth and scattered barley meal on it, so that nothing was known.

So the watchman called out and told the king. And the king said, “If he is by himself there is good news in his mouth.” And he came nearer and nearer.

Smoke went up out of His nostrils, And fire from His mouth was devouring; Coals were kindled by it.