The nurses said to him, “The Hebrew women are much stronger than the Egyptian women. They give birth to their babies before we can get there.”
Then the king of Egypt sent for the nurses and said, “Why did you do this? Why did you let the boys live?”
God was good to the nurses. And the Hebrew people continued to grow in number, so they became even stronger.
David answered him, “The king gave me a special order. He told me, ‘No one must know what I am sending you to do or what I told you to do.’ I told my men where to meet me.