12. The woman said, “Please let me say something else to you.”“Speak,” he said.
13. “Why have you devised something like this against God’s people?” she said. “When you say this, you condemn yourself because you haven’t brought back the one you banished!
14. We are all going to die; we are all like water that is poured on the ground and can’t be gathered up. But doesn’t God forgive a person? He never plans to keep a banished person in exile.
15. “I’ve come to say this to you because the people have frightened me. So I thought, ‘I will speak to the king about this. Maybe the king will do something for me, his subject.
16. Maybe the king will listen and rescue me, his subject, from the man who wants to cut off both me and my son from ⌊our⌋ God-given inheritance.’
17. I thought that you would reassure me. You are like God’s Messenger, who is able to distinguish right from wrong. May the Lord your God be with you!”