And the days were many, and the wife of Judah, the daughter of Shuah, died. And Judah was comforted, and he went up to the shearers of his flocks, he and his friend Hirah of Adullam, to Timnah.
And the king said to Absalom, No, my son, let us not all go now, and we shall not be too heavy on you. But he urged him, and he was not willing to go, but he blessed him.
And now, I have heard that shearers are to you. And your shepherds have been with us; we have not shamed them, nor was anything missing to them all the days they were in Carmel.