2 Samuel 14:16

16 Perhaps he'll agree to save me from the man who is trying to cut off me and my son from the property God gave us.'

2 Samuel 14:16 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 14:16

For the king will hear
She was fully persuaded of it, as now he had heard her:

to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man [that would] destroy
me and my son together out of the inheritance of God;
he had given his word and his oath that he would deliver her son from the avenger of blood, that neither he nor any other should destroy him; which would have been the destruction of her and her whole family out of the land of Israel, the land which God had chosen for his inheritance, and had given to the of Israel to be theirs; and since the king had heard her, and granted her this favour, she doubted not but that he would deliver his own son from death, and restore him to the inheritance of the land, where he might worship the Lord God of his fathers, of which he was now deprived.

2 Samuel 14:16 In-Context

14 All of us must die. We are like water that is spilled on the ground. It can't be put back into the jar. But God doesn't take life away. Instead, he finds a way to bring back anyone who was driven away from him.

15 "King David, I've come here to say this to you now. I've done it because people have made me afraid. I thought, 'I'll go and speak to the king. Perhaps he'll do what I'm asking.

16 Perhaps he'll agree to save me from the man who is trying to cut off me and my son from the property God gave us.'

17 "So now I'm saying, 'May what you have told me bring me peace and rest. You are like an angel of God. You know what is good and what is evil. May the LORD your God be with you.' "

18 Then the king said to the woman, "I'm going to ask you a question. I want you to tell me the truth." "Please ask me anything you want to," the woman said.