11 Then she said, I pray thee, let the king remember Jehovah thy God that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they cut off my son. And he said, AsJehovah liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.
12 And the woman said, Let thy bondmaid, I pray thee, speak a word to my lord the king. And he said, Speak.
13 And the woman said, Why then hast thou thought such a thing against God's people? and the king in saying this thing, is as one guilty, in that the king does not bring back his banished one.
14 For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; and God has not taken away his life, but devises means that the banished one be not expelled from him.
15 And now that I am come to speak of this thing to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid; and thy bondmaid said, I will now speak to the king; perhaps the king will perform the request of his handmaid.
16 For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God
17 And thy bondmaid said, Let the word of my lord the king now be comfortable; for as an angel of God so is my lord the king to discern good and bad; and Jehovah thy God will be with thee.