2 Samuel 14:12-14

The Message

¹² Then she asked, “May I say one more thing to my master, the king?”

He said, “Go ahead.”

^13-14 “Why, then,” the woman said, “have you done this very thing against God’s people? In his verdict, the king convicts himself by not bringing home his exiled son. We all die sometime. Water spilled on the ground can’t be gathered up again. But God does not take away life. He works out ways to get the exile back.”