2 Samuel 14:13-14

13And the woman said, Why then hast thou thought such a thing against 1God's people? and the king in saying this thing, is as one guilty, in that the king does not bring back his banished one.

14For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; and 2God has not taken away his life, but devises means that the banished one be not expelled from him.