8. And the king said unto the woman, Go to thy house, and I will give charge concerning thee.
9. And the woman of Tekoa said unto the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father’s house; and the king and his throne be guiltless.
10. And the king said, Whosoever saith aught unto thee, bring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more.
11. Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember Jehovah thy God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As Jehovah liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.
12. Then the woman said, Let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak a word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.
13. And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou devised such a thing against the people of God? for in speaking this word the king is as one that is guilty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished one.
14. For we must needs die, and are as water split on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God take away life, but deviseth means, that he that is banished be not an outcast from him.