Sinai2 Samuel 14:12
American Standard Version
Then the woman said, Let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak a word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.
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2 Samuel 14:12 in other translations
Then the woman said, “Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king.”
He said, “Say on.”
2 Samuel 14:12 in context
- 10And the king said, Whosoever saith aught unto thee, bring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more.
- 11Then 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.
- 12Then the woman said, Let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak a word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.
- 13And 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.
- 14For we must needs die, and are as water spilt 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.