2 Samuel 14:17-19

English Standard Version

¹⁷ And your servant thought, ‘The word of my lord the king will set me at rest,’ for my lord the king is ^(A)like the angel of God to discern good and evil. The Lord your God be with you!”

¹⁸ Then the king answered the woman, “Do not hide from me anything I ask you.” And the woman said, “Let my lord the king speak.” ¹⁹ The king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” The woman answered and said, ^(B)“As surely as you live, my lord the king, one cannot turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has said. It was your servant Joab who commanded me; ^(C)it was he who put all these words in the mouth of your servant.