1 Kings 2:16

16 Now I have one request to make of you. Do not refuse me.” “You may make it,” she said.

1 Kings 2:16 in Other Translations

16 And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not. And she said unto him, Say on.

16 And now I have one request to make of you; do not refuse me." She said to him, "Speak."

16 So now I have just one favor to ask of you. Please don’t turn me down.” “What is it?” she asked.

16 So now I have one request to ask of you; please don't refuse me." "Go ahead, ask," she said.

16 So now I have just one request of you; don't turn me down." 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 added, “I have something to say to you.” “You may say it,” she replied.

15 “As you know,” he said, “the kingdom was mine. All Israel looked to me as their king. But things changed, and the kingdom has gone to my brother; for it has come to him from the LORD.

16 Now I have one request to make of you. Do not refuse me.” “You may make it,” she said.

17 So he continued, “Please ask King Solomon—he will not refuse you—to give me Abishag the Shunammite as my wife.”

18 “Very well,” Bathsheba replied, “I will speak to the king for you.”