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1 Kings 2:16

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So now I have just one request of you; do not deny me.” “State your request,” she told him.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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This verse in 1 Kings 2

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
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" (t); with shame and sorrow, which would be the case should he be denied: and she said unto him, say on; let me hear it. (t) תשיבי את פני "ne avertere facias faciem meam", Pagninus.

This site's exposition

one petition of thee

on 1 Kings 2:16-18

Adonijah asks for Abishag the Shunammite, the young woman brought to warm David in his old age at 1 Kings 1:1-4 but never known by him, and the request carries royal weight in the ancient world, where a former king's concubine passing to his successor could stand as a claim on the throne, the reading Absalom acted on publicly at 2 Samuel 16:20-22. Bathsheba agrees to carry the petition without raising that danger, whether she misses it or simply leaves Solomon to judge it himself.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The right hand is the place of honor; and as it expressly said to have been assigned to "the king's mother," it is necessary to remark that, when a husband dies, his widow acquires a higher dignity and power, as a mother over her son, than she ever possessed before. Besides, the dignity of "king's mother" is a state office, to which certain revenues are attached.
Deny me not - literally, as in the margin, i. e. “make me not to hide my face through shame at being refused.”

The words behind it

13 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְעַתָּ֗הand now

    veatahH6258 →433 times

  • שְׁאֵלָ֤הa petition

    sheelahH7596 →

  • אַחַת֙one

    ʾachatH259 →971 times

  • אָֽנֹכִי֙I

    ʾanokhiH595 →359 times

  • שֹׁאֵ֣ל[am] asking

    shoelH7592 →171 times

  • מֵֽאִתָּ֔ךְfrom with <the> you

    meitakhH854 →929 times

  • אַל־may not

    ʾal-H408 →724 times

  • תָּשִׁ֖בִיyou turn away

    tashiviH7725 →1056 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • פָּנָ֑יface my

    panaiH6440 →2123 times

  • וַתֹּ֥אמֶרand she said

    vatomerH559 →5305 times

  • אֵלָ֖יוto him

    ʾelavH413 →5510 times

  • דַּבֵּֽר׃speak

    daberH1696 →1141 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Proverbs 30:7

    Two things I ask of You—do not refuse me before I die:

    it leads to

    • Psalms 27:4

      One thing I have asked of the LORD; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the…

    • Luke 10:42

      But only one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, and it will not be taken away from her.”

    • 2 Kings 2:9

      After they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken away from you?” “Please, let me inherit a double portion of your spirit,”…

    • 1 Kings 3:5–9

      One night at Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream, and God said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!”

    • Psalms 21:2

      You have granted his heart’s desire and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah

  • Through

    Psalms 132:10

    For the sake of Your servant David, do not reject Your anointed one.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 11:12–13

      Nevertheless, for the sake of your father David, I will not do it during your lifetime; I will tear it out of the hand of your son.

    • 2 Chronicles 6:42

      O LORD God, do not reject Your anointed one. Remember Your loving devotion to Your servant David.”

    • Psalms 84:9

      Take notice of our shield, O God, and look with favor on the face of Your anointed.

About 1 Kings

The Judgment of Solomon, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Judgment of Solomon, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
1 Kings: the study guide →Read 1 Kings 2 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil, The Books of the Kings and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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