2 Samuel 14:6-8

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^5-6 “What’s the trouble?” he asked.

“I am a widow,” she replied, “and my two sons had a fight out in the field, and since no one was there to part them, one of them was killed. ⁷ Now the rest of the family is demanding that I surrender my other son to them to be executed for murdering his brother. But if I do that, I will have no one left, and my husband’s name will be destroyed from the face of the earth.”

⁸ “Leave it with me,” the king told her. “I’ll see to it that no one touches him.”