2 Samuel 14:5-12

5“What’s the matter with you?” the king said to her. “Truly, I am a widow, my husband is dead,” she said.

6“Your handmaid had two sons, but the two of them fought with each other in the field, where there was no one to separate them. So one struck the other and killed him.

7Now behold, the whole clan has risen against your handmaid and said, ‘Hand over the one who struck down his brother so we may put him to death, for the life of his brother whom he slew.’ So they will also destroy the heir and extinguish my one remaining ember, leaving to my husband neither name nor remnant on the face of the earth!”

8Then the king said to the woman, “Go to your home. I will issue an order concerning you.”

9The woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord the king, let the iniquity be on me and on my father’s house but may the king and his throne be innocent.”

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

11“Please, let the king remember Adonai your God,” she said, “so that the avenger of blood does not destroy any more, so they won’t destroy my son.” “As Adonai lives,” he said, “not one hair of your son will fall to the ground.”

12Then the woman said, “Please, let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king.” “Say on,” he said.