2 Samuel 14:17-19

American Standard Version

¹⁷ Then thy handmaid said, Let, I pray thee, the word of my lord the king be ^[a]comfortable; for as ^[b]an angel of God, so is my lord the king ^[c]to discern good and bad: and Jehovah thy God be with thee.

¹⁸ Then the king answered and said unto the woman, Hide not from me, I pray thee, aught that I shall ask thee. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speak. ¹⁹ And the king said, Is the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from aught that my lord the king hath spoken; for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thy handmaid;