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Now I ask one petition of you; don`t deny me. She said to him, Say on.
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The Language of a Request
Commentators like Albert Barnes and John Gill explain that Adonijah's phrase, "deny me not," has a deeper meaning. It literally translates to "do not turn my face away," implying that a refusal would cause him to hide his face in shame. This was a powerful and emotionally charged way to make a request in that culture.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Deny me not—literally, as noted in the margin, that is, “do not cause me to hide my face in shame at being refused.”
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And now I ask one petition of you And but one, and a small one too, as Bathsheba herself after calls it:
Solomon received Bathsheba with all the respect that was owing to a mother; but let no one be asked for what they ought not to grant. It ill become…
