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.
14 We all have to die—we’re like water spilled out on the ground that can’t be gathered up again. But God doesn’t take life away; instead, he makes plans so those banished from him don’t stay that way.