2 Samuel 14:5-12

5Then the king said to her, “What troubles you?” And she answered, “Indeed I am a widow, my husband is dead.

6Now your maidservant had two sons; and the two fought with each other in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other and killed him.

7And now the whole family has risen up against your maidservant, and they said, ‘Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may execute him for the life of his brother whom he killed; and we will destroy the heir also.’ So they would extinguish my ember that is left, and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant on the earth.”

8Then the king said to the woman, “Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you.”

9And the woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord, O king, let the iniquity be on me and on my father’s house, and the king and his throne be guiltless.”

10So the king said, “Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall not touch you anymore.”

11Then she said, “Please let the king remember the Lord your God, and do not permit the avenger of blood to destroy anymore, lest they destroy my son.” And he said, “As the Lord lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground.”

12Therefore the woman said, “Please, let your maidservant speak another word to my lord the king.” And he said, “Say on.”