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12 Then the woman said, “Please let your servant-woman speak a word to my lord the king.” And he said, “Speak.” 13 Then the woman said, “(A)Why then have you thought up such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring back (B)his banished one. 14 For (C)we will surely die and are (D)like water spilled on the ground which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away life, but thinks up [a]ways so that (E)the banished one will not be cast out from him.

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  1. 2 Samuel 14:14 Lit devices