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2 Samuel 20:16-22
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There was a wise woman in the city who shouted from the wall, "Listen! Listen! Tell Joab to come here; I want to speak with him."
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Joab went, and she asked, "Are you Joab?" "Yes, I am," he answered. "Listen to me, sir," she said. "I'm listening," he answered.
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She said, "Long ago they used to say, 'Go and get your answer in the city of Abel'---and that's just what they did.
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Ours is a great city, one of the most peaceful and loyal in Israel. Why are you trying to destroy it? Do you want to ruin what belongs to the LORD?"
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"Never!" Joab answered. "I will never ruin or destroy your city!
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That is not our plan. A man named Sheba son of Bikri, who is from the hill country of Ephraim, started a rebellion against King David. Hand over this one man, and I will withdraw from the city." "We will throw his head over the wall to you," she said.
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Then she went to the people of the city with her plan, and they cut off Sheba's head and threw it over the wall to Joab. He blew the trumpet as a signal for his men to leave the city, and they went back home. And Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.
Ecclesiastes 9:13-18
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There is something else I saw, a good example of how wisdom is regarded in this world.
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There was a little town without many people in it. A powerful king attacked it. He surrounded it and prepared to break through the walls.
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Someone lived there who was poor, but so clever that he could have saved the town. But no one thought about him.
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I have always said that wisdom is better than strength, but no one thinks of the poor as wise or pays any attention to what they say.
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It is better to listen to the quiet words of someone wise than to the shouts of a ruler at a council of fools.
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Wisdom does more good than weapons, but one sinner can undo a lot of good.
captain of the king's guard
Genesis 37:36
Meanwhile, in Egypt the Midianites had sold Joseph to Potiphar, one of the king's officers, who was the captain of the palace guard.
Jeremiah 39:9
Finally Nebuzaradan, the commanding officer, took away as prisoners to Babylonia the people who were left in the city, together with those who had deserted to him.
Jeremiah 52:12
On the tenth day of the fifth month of the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia, Nebuzaradan, adviser to the king and commander of his army, entered Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 52:14
and his soldiers tore down the city walls.