1 Kings 2:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not. And she said unto him, Say on.

1 Kings 2:16 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 30:7
Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die:
Psalms 132:10
For thy servant David's sake turn not away the face of thine anointed.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-25)

Here is, I. Solomon’s accession to the throne, 1 Kgs. 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 end of one good reign is the beginning of another, as it was here. II. His just and necessary removal of Adonijah his rival, in order to the establishment of his throne. Adonijah had made some bol…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

13-18. Adonijah ... came to Bath-sheba--Her question to him betrays an apprehension which his recent conduct might well warrant; but his pious acknowledgment of the divine will seemed apparently to indicate so entire an acquiescence in the settlement of the succession [1Ki 2:15], that, in her womanly simplicity, she perceived not the deep cunning and evil design that was concealed under his reques…