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Joab sent to Tekoa and brought a wise woman from there, and said to her, “Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don’t anoint yourself with oil; but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.
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Verse 2. Thecua, twelve miles south of Jerusalem. Saint Jerome—Joab causes this unknown woman to come from the country to conceal his design, ( Calmet.) hoping that Absalom would be his father’s successor. Menochius.
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