2 Samuel 14:16-18

New International Version - UK

¹⁶ Perhaps the king will agree to deliver his servant from the hand of the man who is trying to cut off both me and my son from God’s inheritance.”

¹⁷ ‘And now your servant says, “May the word of my lord the king secure my inheritance, for my lord the king is like an angel of God in discerning good and evil. May the Lord your God be with you.”’

¹⁸ Then the king said to the woman, ‘Don’t keep from me the answer to what I am going to ask you.’

‘Let my lord the king speak,’ the woman said.