1 Kings 2:16

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 case should he be denied:

and she said unto him, say on; let me hear it.

(t) תשיבי את פני "ne avertere facias faciem meam", Pagninus.