2 Samuel 14:7-9

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁷ Now the whole family has risen against your servant. They say, “Give up the man who struck his brother, so that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he murdered, even if we destroy the heir as well.” Thus they would quench my one remaining ember, and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant on the face of the earth.’

⁸ Then the king said to the woman, ‘Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you.’ ⁹ The woman of Tekoa said to the king, ‘On me be the guilt, my lord the king, and on my father’s house; let the king and his throne be guiltless.’