Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king; but he would not come to him: and he sent again a second time, but he would not come.
And Absalom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem; and he saw not the king's face.
But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by the chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him.
and sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the marriage feast: and they would not come.