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1 Kings 2:20
1 Kings 2:20 is verse 20 of 1 Kings chapter 2, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
“I have just one small request of you,” she said. “Do not deny me.” “Make your request, my mother,” the king replied, “for I will not deny you.”
King James Version
Then she said, I desire one small petition of thee; I pray thee, say me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother: for I will not say thee nay.
World English Bible
Then she said, “I ask one small petition of you; don’t deny me.” The king said to her, “Ask on, my mother, for I will not deny you.”
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1 Kings 2:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible
18 “Very well,” Bathsheba replied. “I will speak to the king for you.”
19 So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. The king stood up to greet her, bowed to her, and sat down on his throne. Then the king had a throne brought for his mother, who sat down at his right hand.
20 “I have just one small request of you,” she said. “Do not deny me.” “Make your request, my mother,” the king replied, “for I will not deny you.”
21 So Bathsheba said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to your brother Adonijah as his wife.”
22 King Solomon answered his mother, “Why do you request Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Since he is my older brother, you might as well request the kingdom for him and for Abiathar the priest and for Joab son of Zeruiah!”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Matthew 20:20Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons came to Jesus with her sons and knelt down to make a request of Him.
Matthew 20:21“What do you want?” He inquired. She answered, “Declare that in Your kingdom one of these two sons of mine may sit at Your right hand, and the other at Your left.”
John 2:3When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to Him, “They have no more wine.”
John 2:4“Woman, why does this concern us?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.”
Matthew 7:7Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
Matthew 7:8For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
Matthew 7:9Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?
Matthew 7:10Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?
Matthew 7:11So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
Matthew 18:19Again, I tell you truly that if two of you on the earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by My Father in heaven.
Matthew 10:35For I have come to turn ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
Matthew 10:36A man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’
Matthew 11:24But I tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.”
Luke 11:9So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
Luke 11:10For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
John 14:13And I will do whatever you ask in My name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
John 14:14If you ask Me for anything in My name, I will do it.
John 15:16You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.