1 Kings 2:16

16 Now I have one thing to ask you; please do not refuse me." Bathsheba answered, "What do you want?"

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 "I have something to say to you." "You may speak," she said.

15 "You remember that at one time the kingdom was mine," Adonijah said. "All the people of Israel recognized me as their king, but things have changed. Now my brother is the king, because the Lord chose him.

16 Now I have one thing to ask you; please do not refuse me." Bathsheba answered, "What do you want?"

17 "I know King Solomon will do anything you ask him," Adonijah continued. "Please ask him to give me Abishag the Shunammite to be my wife."

18 "Very well," she answered. "I will speak to the king for you."