ECB(i)
17 And your maid says, The word of my adoni the sovereign now rests: for as an angel of Elohim thus is my adoni the sovereign - to hear good and evil: therefore Yah Veh your Elohim be with you.
18 Then the sovereign answers the woman and says, Conceal not from me, I pray you, the word I ask you. And the woman says, Let my adoni the sovereign now word.
19 And the sovereign says, Is the hand of Yah Ab with you in all this? And the woman answers and says, Your soul lives, my adoni the sovereign, no man can turn right or left from aught that my adoni the sovereign words: for your servant Yah Ab, he misvahed me and he set all these words in the mouth of your maid:
20 so as to go about the face of this word your servant Yah Ab worked this word: and my adoni is wise as the wisdom of an angel of Elohim, to know all that is in the earth.
21 And the sovereign says to Yah Ab, Behold, I pray you, I work this word: go, return the lad Abi Shalom.
22 And Yah Ab falls to the earth on his face and prostrates and blesses the sovereign: and Yah Ab says, Today your servant knows that I find charism in your eyes, my adoni, O sovereign, in that the sovereign works the word of his servant.
23 And Yah Ab rises and goes to Geshur and brings Abi Shalom to Yeru Shalem.
24 And the sovereign says, Have him return to his own house and not see my face. So Abi Shalom returns to his own house and sees not the face of the sovereign: