Then Absalom sent for Joab to send him to the king, but Joab would not come to him. He sent a second time, but Joab would not come.
So Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem without coming into the king’s presence.
But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s command conveyed by the eunuchs. At this the king was enraged, and his anger burned within him.
He sent his slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding banquet, but they would not come.