1 Kings 2:16

16 Now one request I am asking from you, and you must {not refuse me}." Then she said to him, "Go on."

1 Kings 2:16 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 2:16

And now I ask one petition of thee
And but one, and a small one too, as Bathsheba herself after calls it:

deny me not,
or "turn not away my face" ^F20; with shame and sorrow, which would be the case should he be denied:

and she said unto him, say on;
let me hear it.

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FOOTNOTES:

F20 (ynp ta ybyvt) "ne avertere facias faciem meam", Pagninus.

1 Kings 2:16 In-Context

14 Then he said, "{May I have a word with you}?" Then she said, "Go on."

15 He said, "You know that the kingship was mine and that all Israel had set their face toward me as king, but the kingship turned around and became my brother's, for it was from Yahweh for him [to have it].

16 Now one request I am asking from you, and you must {not refuse me}." Then she said to him, "Go on."

17 He said, "Please speak to King Solomon, for he will not refuse you, so that he will give to me Abishag the Shunnamite as wife."

18 Then Bathsheba said, "Very well, I will speak to the king concerning you."

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "not turn my face"