1 Kings 2:20

World English Bible (2000)

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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  • Matt 7:7-9 : 7 "Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. 8 For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent? 11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
  • Matt 10:35-36 : 35 For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36 A man's foes will be those of his own household.
  • Matt 11:24 : 24 But I tell you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom, on the day of judgment, than for you."
  • Matt 18:19 : 19 Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven.
  • Matt 20:20-21 : 20 Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling and asking a certain thing of him. 21 He said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, "Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand, and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom."
  • Luke 11:9-9 : 9 "I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
  • John 2:3-4 : 3 When the wine ran out, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no wine." 4 Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come."
  • John 14:13-14 : 13 Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.
  • John 15:16 : 16 You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

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  • 1 Kgs 2:16-19
    4 verses
    89%

    16 Now I ask one petition of you. Don't deny me." She said to him, "Say on."

    17 He said, "Please speak to Solomon the king (for he will not tell you 'no'), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife."

    18 Bathsheba said, "Alright. I will speak for you to the king."

    19 Bathsheba therefore went to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. The king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a throne to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.

  • 1 Kgs 1:11-17
    7 verses
    81%

    11 Then Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, "Haven't you heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith reigns, and David our lord doesn't know it?

    12 Now therefore come, please let me give you counsel, that you may save your own life, and the life of your son Solomon.

    13 Go in to king David, and tell him, 'Didn't you, my lord, king, swear to your handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? Why then does Adonijah reign?'

    14 Behold, while you yet talk there with the king, I also will come in after you, and confirm your words."

    15 Bathsheba went in to the king into the room. The king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite was ministering to the king.

    16 Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance to the king. The king said, "What would you like?"

    17 She said to him, "My lord, you swore by Yahweh your God to your handmaid, 'Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.'

  • 1 Kgs 2:13-14
    2 verses
    81%

    13 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. She said, "Do you come peaceably?" He said, "Peaceably.

    14 He said moreover, I have something to tell you." She said, "Say on."

  • 1 Kgs 2:21-23
    3 verses
    78%

    21 She said, "Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife."

    22 King Solomon answered his mother, "Why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also; for he is my elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah."

    23 Then king Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, "God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.

  • 2 Sam 14:10-12
    3 verses
    76%

    10 The king said, "Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall not touch you any more."

    11 Then she said, "Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son." He said, "As Yahweh lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth."

    12 Then the woman said, "Please let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king." He said, "Say on."

  • 1 Kgs 1:26-28
    3 verses
    75%

    26 But he hasn't called me, even me your servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon.

    27 Is this thing done by my lord the king, and you haven't shown to your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?"

    28 Then king David answered, "Call to me Bathsheba." She came into the king's presence, and stood before the king.

  • 2 Sam 14:18
    74%

    18 Then the king answered the woman, "Please don't hide anything from me that I ask you." The woman said, "Let my lord the king now speak."

  • 1 Kgs 1:30-32
    3 verses
    73%

    30 most certainly as I swore to you by Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, 'Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place;' most certainly so will I do this day."

    31 Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did obeisance to the king, and said, "Let my lord king David live forever!"

    32 King David said, "Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada." They came before the king.

  • 1 Kgs 1:24
    72%

    24 Nathan said, "My lord, king, have you said, 'Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne?'

  • 2 Chr 1:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7 In that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, "Ask what I shall give you."

    8 Solomon said to God, "You have shown great loving kindness to David my father, and have made me king in his place.

  • 2 Sam 14:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15 Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and your handmaid said, 'I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.'

    16 For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

  • 2 Chr 9:12
    71%

    12 King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, besides that which she had brought to the king. So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her servants.

  • 1 Kgs 10:13
    71%

    13 King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, besides that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her servants.

  • 2 Kgs 4:28
    70%

    28 Then she said, "Did I desire a son of my lord? Didn't I say, Do not deceive me?"

  • 1 Kgs 1:20-21
    2 verses
    70%

    20 You, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, that you should tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.

    21 Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders."

  • 1 Kgs 1:47
    70%

    47 Moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, 'May your God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne;' and the king bowed himself on the bed.

  • Mark 6:24
    70%

    24 She went out, and said to her mother, "What shall I ask?" She said, "The head of John the Baptizer."

  • 1 Kgs 10:3
    69%

    3 Solomon told her all her questions: there was not anything hidden from the king which he didn't tell her.

  • 1 Kgs 3:5-6
    2 verses
    69%

    5 In Gibeon Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, "Ask what I shall give you."

    6 Solomon said, "You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, according as he walked before you in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.

  • 2 Chr 1:11
    69%

    11 God said to Solomon, "Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches, wealth, or honor, nor the life of those who hate you, neither yet have asked long life; but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge my people, over whom I have made you king:

  • 1 Sam 1:27
    69%

    27 For this child I prayed; and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him.

  • 1 Kgs 3:10
    69%

    10 The speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.

  • 1 Kgs 3:27
    69%

    27 Then the king answered, "Give her the living child, and in no way kill it. She is its mother."

  • Prov 30:7
    69%

    7 "Two things I have asked of you; don't deny me before I die:

  • 2 Chr 9:2
    69%

    2 Solomon told her all her questions; and there was not anything hidden from Solomon which he didn't tell her.

  • 1 Kgs 1:6
    68%

    6 His father had not displeased him at any time in saying, "Why have you done so?" and he was also a very handsome man; and he was born after Absalom.

  • Prov 31:2
    68%

    2 "Oh, my son! Oh, son of my womb! Oh, son of my vows!

  • 1 Kgs 1:36
    68%

    36 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, "Amen. May Yahweh, the God of my lord the king, say so.