2 Samuel 14:10-12

The Message

¹⁰ “Bring the man who has been harassing you,” the king continued. “I’ll see to it that he doesn’t bother you anymore.”

¹¹ “Let the king invoke the name of God,” said the woman, “so this self-styled vigilante won’t ruin everything, to say nothing of killing my son.”

“As surely as God lives,” he said, “not so much as a hair of your son’s head will be lost.”

¹² Then she asked, “May I say one more thing to my master, the king?”

He said, “Go ahead.”