2 Samuel 19:26-28

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

²⁶ He answered, ‘My lord, O king, my servant deceived me; for your servant said to him, “Saddle a donkey for me,^[a] so that I may ride on it and go with the king.” For your servant is lame. ²⁷ He has slandered your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is like the angel of God; do therefore what seems good to you. ²⁸ For all my father’s house were doomed to death before my lord the king; but you set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right have I, then, to appeal to the king?’