Then Absalom sent for Joab, in order to send him to the king, but he was unwilling to come to him. So he sent word again a second time, but he still would not come.
He sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they wouldn’t come.
But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s command conveyed by the eunuchs. Then the king became furious, and burned with anger.
Now Absalom had lived two full years in Jerusalem but he never saw the king’s face.