2 Samuel 14:7-9

International Standard Version

⁷ Now please pay attention closely! My^[a] whole family is attacking your humble servant! They’re saying, ‘Turn over the one who attacked his brother and we’ll put him to death in retribution for his brother, whose life he took. That way, we’ll kill the heir also!’ They’re going to extinguish the only light^[b] left in my family, leaving my late husband neither an ongoing name nor a survivor on the face of the earth!”

⁸ Then the king replied to the woman, “Go home and I’ll issue a special order just for you.”

⁹ But the woman from Tekoa told the king, “Your majesty, let any guilt for this be on me and on my ancestors’ household, and not on my king or his throne!”