2 Samuel 14:12-14

Lexham English Bible

¹² The woman said, “Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king.” And he said, “Speak.” ¹³ The woman said, “But why have you plotted like this against the people of God? By speaking this word, he is guilty not to bring back his banished one. ¹⁴ For we must certainly die,^[a] and we are as the waters spilled to the ground which cannot be gathered. God will not take a life but devises plans for a banished person not to be cast out from him.