Holy Scripture

2 Samuel 14:15

Source: Septuagint

Original

15And now whereas I came to speak this word to my lord the king, the reason is that the people will see me, and thy handmaid will say, Let one now speak to my lord the king, if peradventure the king will perform the request of his handmaid;

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13And the woman said, Why hast thou devised this thing against the people of God? or is this word out of the king’s mouth as a transgression, so that the king should not bring back his banished?

14For we shall surely die, and be as water poured upon the earth, which shall not be gathered up, and God shall take the life, even as he devises to thrust forth from him his outcast.

— 2 Samuel 14:15 —

16for the king will hear. Let him rescue his handmaid out of the hand of the man that seeks to cast out me and my son from the inheritance of God.

17And the woman said, If now the word of my lord the king be gracious— well: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king, to hear good and evil: and the Lord thy God shall be with thee.

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