2 Samuel 14:13
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. 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.
The woman's words rebuke David as faulty for devising such a thing against the people of God by refusing to fetch home his banished son Absalom. She treats his keeping Absalom away as unjust when he as king had power to bring him home. Her appeal presses him to extend mercy and reconciliation to Absalom, applying to his own son the same protection he had just promised to the widow's surviving son. That reconciliation came through Joab's intercession and gave Absalom an opportunity he later betrayed by leading a rebellion, so that without that intercession the rebellion and its horrors would not have occurred. The fetching home of the banished also images the hope that at Christ's appearing God will bring His people back from the exile of death and restore them to the lost Paradise.