10:014:007 And, behold, the whole family is risen
against thine handmaid,
and
they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that
we may
kill
him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and
we
will
destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench
my coal
which
is left, and shall not leave to my husband neither
name
nor
remainder upon the earth.
10:014:008 And the king said unto the woman, Go to
thine house, and I
will
give charge concerning thee.
10:014:009 And the woman of Tekoah said unto the king,
My lord, O king,
the
iniquity be on me, and on my father’s house:
and the king
and
his throne be guiltless.
10:014:010 And the king said, Whoever saith ought
unto thee, bring him to
me,
and he shall not touch thee any more.
10:014:011 Then said she, I pray thee, let the king
remember the lord thy
God,
that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood
to
destroy
any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said,
As
the
lord liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son
fall to
the
earth.
10:014:012 Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid,
I pray thee, speak
one
word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.
10:014:013 And the woman said, Wherefore then hast
thou thought such a
thing
against the people of God? for the king doth speak
this
thing
as one which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch
home
again his banished.
10:014:014 For we must needs die, and are as water
spilt on the ground,
which
cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect
any
person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished
be not
expelled
from him.
10:014:015 Now therefore that I am come to speak of
this thing unto my
lord
the king, it is because the people have made me afraid:
and
thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king;
it may
be
that the king will perform the request of his handmaid.
10:014:016 For the king will hear, to deliver his
handmaid out of the
hand
of the man that would destroy me and my son together
out
of
the inheritance of God.
10:014:017 Then thine handmaid said, The word of my
lord the king shall
now
be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so is
my lord the
king
to discern good and bad: therefore the lord
thy God will
be
with thee.
10:014:018 Then the king answered and said unto the
woman, Hide not from
me,
I pray thee, the thing that I shall ask thee.
And the
woman
said, Let my lord the king now speak.


