“And now, I am making one request of you, do not refuse me.” And she said to him, “Say it.”
And he said, “You know that the reign was mine, and all Yisra’ĕl had set their faces toward me, that I should reign. But the reign has been turned around, and has become my brother’s, for it was his from יהוה.
And he said, “Please speak to Sovereign Shelomoh – for he would not refuse you – to give me Aḇishaḡ the Shunammite as wife.”
And she said, “I am making one small request of you, do not refuse me.” And the sovereign said to her, “Ask it, my mother, for I do not refuse you.”
For the sake of Your servant Dawiḏ, Do not turn away the face of Your Anointed One.
Two matters I have asked of You – Deny them not to me before I die: