2 Samuel 14:14
For we must needs die, and as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither does Elohim respect person: yet does he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
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12 Then the woman said, Let your handmaid, I pray you, speak word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.
13 And the woman said, therefore then hast you thought such a thing against the people of Elohim? for the king does speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king does not fetch home again his banished.
14 For we must needs die, and as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither does Elohim respect person: yet does he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
15 Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king, because the people have made me afraid: and your handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid.
16 For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of Elohim.