Then the king said to Joab, “Behold now, I grant this; go, bring back the young man Absalom.”
Then she said, “Please let the king invoke the Lord your God, that the avenger of blood kill no more, and my son be not destroyed.” He said, “As the Lord lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground.”
And the king was exceedingly sorry, but because of his oaths and his guests he did not want to break his word to her.
For as the Lord lives who saves Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die.” But there was not a man among all the people who answered him.
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