2 Samuel 14:4-14 (BSB) | TrulyRandomVerse

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When the woman from Tekoa went to the king, she fell facedown in homage and said, “Help me, O king!”

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“What troubles you?” the king asked her. “Indeed,” she said, “I am a widow, for my husband is dead.

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And your maidservant had two sons who were fighting in the field with no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.

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Now the whole clan has risen up against your maidservant and said, ‘Hand over the one who struck down his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of the brother whom he killed. Then we will cut off the heir as well!’ So they would extinguish my one remaining ember by not preserving my husband’s name or posterity on the earth.”

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“Go home,” the king said to the woman, “and I will give orders on your behalf.”

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But the woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord the king, may any blame be on me and on my father’s house, and may the king and his throne be guiltless.”

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“If anyone speaks to you,” said the king, “bring him to me, and he will not trouble you again!”

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“Please,” she replied, “may the king invoke the LORD your God to prevent the avenger of blood from increasing the devastation, so that my son may not be destroyed!” “As surely as the LORD lives,” he vowed, “not a hair of your son’s head will fall to the ground.”

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Then the woman said, “Please, may your servant speak a word to my lord the king?” “Speak,” he replied.

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The woman asked, “Why have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself, since he has not brought back his own banished son?

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For surely we will die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.

2 Samuel 14:4-14

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