12Then the woman said, |Please let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king.| He said, |Say on.|


In Context

9 The woman of Tekoa said to the king, |My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house; and the king and his throne be guiltless.|

10 The king said, |Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall not touch you any more.|

11 Then she said, |Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son.| He said, |As Yahweh lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth.|

12 Then the woman said, |Please let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king.| He said, |Say on.|

13 The woman said, |Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished one.

14 For we must die, and are as water split on the ground, which can't be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

2 Samuel 14:12 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

14:12Then the woman said, "Let your servant speak a word to my lord the king." "Speak," he replied.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:12Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak [one] word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

14:12Then the woman said: Let thy handmaid speak one word to my lord the king. And he said: Speak.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

14:12Then the woman said, Let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak a word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:12And the woman said, Let thy bondmaid, I pray thee, speak a word to my lord the king. And he said, Speak.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

14:12Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak a word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:12Then the woman said, Let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak one word to my lord the king. And he said, Say on.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

14:12And the woman saith, 'Let, I pray thee, thy maid-servant speak unto my lord the king a word;' and he saith, 'Speak.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:12Then the woman said, Let your handmaid, I pray you, speak one word to my lord the king. And he said, Say on.