2 Samuel 14:12

12 Then the woman said, "May your female servant say something to my master the king?" "Speak!" he said.

2 Samuel 14:12 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 14:12

Then the woman said, let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak
[one] word unto my Lord the king
Having gained her point, and gotten a decree from him confirmed by an oath, that her son though he had killed his brother should not die; she proceeds to accommodate the parable, and apply it to the case of Absalom, and improve it in his favour:

and he said, say on;
gave her leave to say what she had further to observe to him; see ( Luke 7:40 ) .

2 Samuel 14:12 In-Context

10 "If anyone speaks against you, bring him to me, and he will never trouble you again," the king replied.

11 She said, "Please let the king remember the LORD your God so that the one seeking revenge doesn't add to the destruction and doesn't kill my son." "As surely as the LORD lives," David said, "not one of your son's hairs will fall to the ground."

12 Then the woman said, "May your female servant say something to my master the king?" "Speak!" he said.

13 The woman said, “Why have you planned the very same thing against God's people? In giving this order, the king has become guilty because the king hasn't restored his own banished son.

14 We all have to die—we're like water spilled out on the ground that can't be gathered up again. But God doesn't take life away; instead, he makes plans so those banished from him don't stay that way.