2 Samuel 14:12

12 The woman said, "Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king." And he said, "Speak."

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 The king said, "[Whoever] has spoken to you, bring him to me, and he will not touch you again."

11 Then she said, "Please may the king remember Yahweh your God, {to prevent the increase of blood avengers who kill}, [so that they] not wipe out my son." He said, "{As Yahweh lives}, surely not one hair shall fall from your son to the ground."

12 The woman said, "Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king." And he said, "Speak."

13 The woman said, "But why have you plotted like this against the people of God? By speaking this word, he is guilty not to bring back his banished one.

14 For {we must certainly die}, and [we are] as the waters spilled to the ground which cannot be gathered. God will not take a life but devises plans for a banished person not to be cast out from him.