King James Version
2 Samuel 14:12 in the King James Version says “Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak one word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.” — study this verse from 2 Samuel chapter 14 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak one word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.”
2 Samuel 14:12 · KJV
And the king said, Whosoever saith ought unto thee, bring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more.
Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth. that: Heb. that the revenger of blood do not multiply to destroy
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 said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doth 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 doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him. neither: or, because God hath not taken away his life, he hath also devised means, etc
KJV Study — Public Domain
“I pray thee speak”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
'i pray', 'now', or 'then'; added mostly to verbs (in the imperative or future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction
“one word”
H1697a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
“I pray thee speak”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
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