8 And the king said to the woman, "Go to your own house, and I will make a decree on your behalf."
9 And the woman of Tekoa said to the king: "May the iniquity be upon me, my lord, and upon the house of my father. But may the king and his throne be innocent."
10 And the king said, "Whoever will contradict you, bring him to me, and he will never touch you again."
11 And she said, "Let the king remember the Lord his God, so that close blood relatives may not be multiplied in order to take revenge, and so that they may by no means kill my son." And he said, "As the Lord lives, not one hair from your son shall fall to the ground."
12 Then the woman said, "Let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king." And he said, "Speak."
13 And the woman said: "Why have you thought such a thing against the people of God, and why has the king spoken this word, so that he sins and does not lead back the one whom he rejected?
14 We are all dying, and we are all like waters that flow into the ground and do not return. God does not will to lose a soul. Instead, he renews his efforts, thinking that what has been rejected might not perish altogether.