2 Samuel 14:12
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
Then the woman said, “Please, may your servant speak a word to my lord the king?” “Speak,” he replied.
In context
10 “If anyone speaks to you,” said the king, “bring him to me, and he will not trouble you again!”
11 “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.”
12 Then the woman said, “Please, may your servant speak a word to my lord the king?” “Speak,” he replied.
13 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?
14 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 14:12 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Then the woman said, “Please, may your servant speak a word to my lord the king?” “Speak,” he replied.
- KJV King James Version
- Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak one word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.
- WEB World English Bible
- Then the woman said, “Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king.” He said, “Say on.”
- ASV American Standard Version
- Then the woman said, Let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak a word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And the woman saith, 'Let, I pray thee, thy maid-servant speak unto my lord the king a word;' and he saith, 'Speak.'
- DBY Darby Translation
- And the woman said, Let thy bondmaid, I pray thee, speak a word to my lord the king. And he said, Speak.
- WBS Webster Bible
- Then the woman said, Let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak one word to my lord the king. And he said, Say on.