16 For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me, and also my son from the inheritance of God.

17 Therefore thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be [a]comfortable: for my lord the King is even as an [b]Angel of God in hearing of good and bad: therefore the Lord thy God be with thee.

18 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.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 14:17 Hebrew, rest.
  2. 2 Samuel 14:17 Is of great wisdom to discern right from wrong.

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