And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not. And she said unto him, Say on.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
Deny me not - literally, as in the margin, i. e. “make me not to hide my face through shame at being refused.”
Here is, I. Solomon's accession to the throne, Kg1 2:12. He came to it much more easily and peaceably than David did, and much sooner saw his government established. It is happy for a kingdom when the…
Cambridge Bible
deny me not The Hebrew is -turn not away my face," and implies that a person whose suit is refused is turned away in disgrace. The same expression is rendered -to say not nay" in 1Ki 2:17; 1Ki 2:20.…