7 Now the entire clan has turned against your servant. They say, ‘Hand over the one who killed his brother so we can execute him for murdering his brother, even though we would destroy the heir as well.’ So they would snuff out the one ember I have left, leaving my husband without name or descendant on the earth."
8 The king said to the woman, "Return home, and I will issue an order in your behalf."
9 The woman of Tekoa said to the king, "My master and king, let the guilt be on me and on my father’s household. The king and his throne are innocent."
10 "If anyone speaks against you, bring him to me, and he will never trouble you again," the king replied.
11 She said, "Please let the king remember the Lord your God so that the one seeking revenge doesn’t add to the destruction and doesn’t kill my son.""As surely as the Lord lives," David said, "not one of your son’s hairs will fall to the ground."
12 Then the woman said, "May your female servant say something to my master the king?""Speak!" he said.
13 The woman said, “Why have you planned the very same thing against God’s people? In giving this order, the king has become guilty because the king hasn’t restored his own banished son.