2 Samuel 14:5-12

5The king said to her, “What is your trouble?” And she 1answered, “Truly I am a widow, for my husband is dead. 6Your maidservant had two sons, but the two of them struggled together in the field, and there was no 2one to separate them, so one struck the other and killed him. 7Now behold, 3the whole family has risen against your maidservant, and they say, ‘Hand over the one who struck his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed, 4and destroy the heir also.’ Thus they will extinguish my coal which is left, so as to 5leave my husband neither name nor remnant on the face of the earth.”

8Then the king said to the woman, “Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you.” 9The woman of Tekoa said to the king, “O my lord, the king, 6the iniquity is on me and my father’s house, but 7the king and his throne are guiltless.” 10So the king said, “Whoever speaks to you, bring him to me, and he will not touch you anymore.” 11Then she said, “Please let the king remember the Lord your God, 8so that the avenger of blood will not continue to destroy, otherwise they will destroy my son.” And he said, “9As the Lord lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground.”

12Then the woman said, “Please let your maidservant speak a word to my lord the king.” And he said, “Speak.”