1 Kings 2:16

Myles Coverdale Bible

Now desyre I one peticion of the, Make not my face ashamed. She sayde vnto him: Saye on.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So now I have just one request of you; don’t turn me down.”

Hebrew Names Version
Now I ask one petition of you; don't deny me. She said to him, Say on.

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

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

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

New English Translation
Now I'd like to ask you for just one thing. Please don't refuse me." She said, "Go ahead and ask."

Amplified Bible
"So now I am making one request of you; do not refuse me." And she said to him, "Speak."

New American Standard Bible
"So now I am making one request of you; do not refuse me." And she said to him, "Speak."

Geneva Bible (1587)
Nowe therefore I aske thee one request, refuse me not. And she said vnto him, Say on.

Legacy Standard Bible
So now, I am making one request of you; do not turn me away." And she said to him, "Speak."

Contemporary English Version
Would you do me a favor?" "What do you want?" Bathsheba asked.

Complete Jewish Bible
But now I ask one favor of you; don't deny me." "Go on," she said.

Darby Translation
And now I ask one petition of thee; refuse me not. And she said to him, Speak.

Easy-to-Read Version
But now I have one thing to ask you. Please don't refuse me." Bathsheba answered, "What do you want?"

George Lamsa Translation
And now I make one petition of you, do not refuse me. And she said to him, Say on.

Good News Translation
And now I have one request to make; please do not refuse me." "What is it?" Bathsheba asked.

Lexham English Bible
Now one request I am asking from you, and you must not refuse me." Then she said to him, "Go on."

Literal Translation
And now I am asking one petition of you. Do not turn away your face. And she said to him, Speak.

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

Bible in Basic English
Now I have one request to make to you, and do not say, No, to me. And she said to him, Say on.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And nowe I aske a petition of thee, deny me not. And she sayde vnto him: Say on.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not.' And she said unto him: 'Say on.'

King James Version (1611)
And now I aske one petition of thee, deny me not. And she saide vnto him, Say on.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And now I make one request of thee, do not turn away thy face. And Bersabee said to him, Speak on.

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

Berean Standard Bible
So now I have just one request of you; do not deny me." "State your request," she told him.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Now therfor Y preye of the oon axyng; schende thou not my face. And sche seide to hym, Speke thou. And he seide, Y preie,

Young's Literal Translation
and now, one petition I am asking of thee -- turn not back my face;' and she saith unto him, `Speak.'

Update Bible Version
And now I ask one petition of you; don't deny me. And she said to him, Say on.

Webster's Bible Translation
And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not. And she said to him, Say on.

World English Bible
Now I ask one petition of you; don't deny me. She said to him, Say on.

New King James Version
Now I ask one petition of you; do not deny me." And she said to him, "Say it."

New Living Translation
So now I have just one favor to ask of you. Please don't turn me down." "What is it?" she asked.

New Life Bible
Now I have one thing to ask of you. Do not say no to me." And she said to him, "Speak."

New Revised Standard
And now I have one request to make of you; do not refuse me." She said to him, "Go on."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now, therefore, one request, have I to ask of thee, do not turn away my face.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now therefore, I ask one petition of thee; turn not away my face. And she said to him: Say on.

Revised Standard Version
And now I have one request to make of you; do not refuse me." She said to him, "Say on."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Now I am making one request of you; do not refuse me." And she said to him, "Speak."

Contextual Overview

¹² And Salomon sat vpon the seate of Dauid his father, and his kyngdome was made very sure. ¹³ But Adonias the sonne of Hagith came in to Bethseba Salomons mother. And she sayde: Is thy commynge peaceable? He spake: Yee, ¹⁴ and sayde: I haue somwhat to saye to the. She sayde: Saye on. ¹⁵ He sayde: Thou knowest that the kyngdome was myne, and that all Israel had sett them selues vpon me, that I shulde be kynge, but now is the kyngdome turned, and become my brothers: for he hath it of the LORDE. ¹⁶ Now desyre I one peticion of the, Make not my face ashamed. She sayde vnto him: Saye on. ¹⁷ He sayde: Speake vnto kynge Salomon (for he shall not shame thy face) that he maye geue me Abisag to wyfe. ¹⁸ Bethseba sayde: Wel, I wil speake to the kynge for the. ¹⁹ And Bethseba came in to kynge Salomon to speake with him. And the kynge stode vp, and wente to mete her, and worshipped her, and sat him downe vpon his seate. And there was a chayre set for the kynges mother, so that she sat at his righte hande. ²⁰ And she sayde: One peticion desyre I of the make not my face ashamed. The kynge saydt: Axe O my mother, I wyl not shame thy face. ²¹ She saide: Let Abisag of Sunem be geuen thy brother Adonias to wyfe.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

deny me not: Heb. turn not away my face, Psalms 132:10, Proverbs 30:7

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 6:42 - General Mark 10:35 - we would

Cross-References

Genesis 2:1
Thus was heaue and earth fynished with all their hoost,

Genesis 2:2
and thus in the seuenth daye God ended his worke, which he had made, & rested in the seuenth daye from all his workes which he had made:

Genesis 2:9
And the LORDE God caused to sprynge out of the earth all maner trees, pleasaut to loke vpo, and good to eate: and the tre of life in the myddest of the garden, and the tre of knowlege of good and euell.

1 Samuel 15:22
Samuel saide: Hath the LORDE pleasure in sacrifices and burntofferynges, as in obeynge the voyce of the LORDE? Beholde, obedience is better then offerynge, and to herken is better then the fat of rammes.

1 Timothy 4:4
For euery creature off God is good, and nothinge to be refused, yt is receaued with thankesgeuynge:

1 Timothy 6:17
Charge the which are riche in this worlde, that they be not proude, ner trust in the vncertayne riches, but in the lyuynge God (which geueth vs abundauntly all thinges to enioye them:)

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Deny me not - literally, as in the margin, i. e. “make me not to hide my face through shame at being refused.”