2 Samuel 14:12-14

New International Reader's Version

¹² Then the woman said, “King David, please let me say something else to you.”

“Go ahead,” he replied.

¹³ The woman said, “You are the king. So why have you done something that brings so much harm on God’s people? When you do that, you hand down a sentence against yourself. You won’t let the son you drove away come back. ¹⁴ All of us must die. We are like water spilled on the ground. It can’t be put back into the jar. But that is not what God desires. Instead, he finds a way to bring back anyone who was driven away from him.