2 Samuel 14:12-14

New King James Version

¹² Therefore the woman said, “Please, let your maidservant speak another word to my lord the king.”

And he said, “Say on.”

¹³ So the woman said: “Why then have you schemed such a thing against ^(A)the people of God? For the king speaks this thing as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring ^(B)his banished one home again. ¹⁴ For we ^(C)will surely die and become like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not ^(D)take away a life; but He ^(E)devises means, so that His banished ones are not ^[a]expelled from Him.