American King James Version
" Then the woman said, Let your handmaid, I pray you, speak one word to my lord the king. And he said, Say on. "
— 2 Samuel 14:12, American King James Version
“Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak one word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.”
“Then the woman said, Let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak a word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on. ”
“Then the woman said, "Please let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king." He said, "Say on."”
“Then the woman said,“Please permit your servant to speak to my lord the king about another matter.” He replied,“Tell me.””
“The woman said: Let thy hand maid speak one word to my lord the king. And he said: Speak.”
“Then the woman said, Will the king let his servant say one word more? And he said, Say on.”
“Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak one word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.”
And the woman of Tekoah 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.
And the king said, Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall not touch you any more.
Then said she, I pray you, let the king remember the LORD your God, that you would not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the LORD lives, there shall not one hair of your son fall to the earth.
Then the woman said, Let your handmaid, I pray you, speak one word to my lord the king. And he said, Say on.
And the woman said, Why then have you thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king does speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king does not fetch home again his banished.
For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither does God respect any person: yet does he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and your handmaid said, I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid.