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1 Kings 2:16

1 Kings 2:16 is verse 16 of 1 Kings chapter 2, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

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

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King James Version

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

World English Bible

Now I ask one petition of you. Don’t deny me.” She said to him, “Say on.”

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1 Kings 2:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible

14 Then he said, “I have something to tell you.” “Say it,” she answered.

15 “You know that the kingship was mine,” he said. “All Israel expected that I should reign, but the kingship has turned to my brother, for it has come to him from the LORD.

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

17 Adonijah replied, “Please speak to King Solomon, since he will not turn you down. Let him give me Abishag the Shunammite as my wife.”

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

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Hebrew words

וְעַתָּ֗הand now שְׁאֵלָ֤הa petition אַחַת֙one אָֽנֹכִי֙I שֹׁאֵ֣ל[am] asking מֵֽאִתָּ֔ךְfrom with <the> you אַלmay not תָּשִׁ֖בִיyou turn away אֶת<obj.>פָּנָ֑יface my וַתֹּ֥אמֶרand she said אֵלָ֖יוto him דַּבֵּֽרspeak

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 132:10
For the sake of Your servant David, do not reject Your anointed one.

Proverbs 30:7
Two things I ask of You— do not refuse me before I die:

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