12. Then the woman said, “Allow your servant to speak a word to my lord the king.”So he said, “Speak.”
13. The woman said, “Why have you planned like this against the people of God? The king’s speaking this word is like a self-conviction, for the king has not brought back his own banished one.
14. We will surely die and are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away a life; He devises plans so that His banished ones will not be cast out from Him.
15. “So now I have come to speak to my lord the king about this matter because the people have made me afraid. So, I thought, ‘Iwill speak to the king. Perhaps the king will perform the request of his servant.
16. For the king may accept my request to deliver his servant from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son from the inheritance of God.’
17. “So, your servant thought, ‘May the word of my lord the king provide rest. For like the angel of God, my lord the king discerns good from evil. May the Lord your God be with you.’ ”