2Sa 14:15-16 | ESV | STEP | Now I have come to say this to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid , and your servant thought , I will speak to the king ; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant .

2 Samuel 14:15-16

15 Now I have come to say this to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid, and your servant thought, ‘I will speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant. 16 For the king will hear and deliver his servant from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together from ^athe heritage of God.’