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.
Ver. 11. Let the king remember the Lord thy God.] Whose viceregent thou art to do me right: which that thou wilt not fail to do, be pleased to swear to me: this she covertly desired, and he granted.
And he said, As the Lord liveth.] This oath was not taken "in truth, in righteousness, and in judgment," as Jeremiah 4:2, for this manslayer ought to have died according to Numbers 35:16,17; Numbers 35:21. But it was now David's own case in respect of Absalom: and thence he was so favourable to this petitioner, and so ready to relieve her.