2 Samuel 14:12-14

Modern English Version

¹² Then the woman said, “Allow your servant to speak a word to my lord the king.”

So he said, “Speak.”

¹³ The woman said, “Why have you planned like this against the people of God? The king’s speaking this word is like a self-conviction, for the king has not brought back his own banished one. ¹⁴ We will surely die and are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away a life; He devises plans so that His banished ones will not be cast out from Him.