2 Samuel 14:12-14

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¹²“Please let me ask one more thing of you!” she said.

“Go ahead,” he replied. “Speak!”

¹³“Why don’t you do as much for all the people of God as you have promised to do for me?” she asked. “You have convicted yourself in making this decision, because you have refused to bring home your own banished son. ¹⁴All of us must die eventually; our lives are like water that is poured out on the ground—it can’t be gathered up again. But God will bless you with a longer life if you will find a way to bring your son back from his exile.^[a]

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Footnotes

2 Samuel 14:14 God will bless you . . . if you . . . bring your son back from his exile, or “God does not sweep life away, but has made provision to bring back those he banishes, so that they will not be forever exiles.”