1 Kings 2:20

2:20 She said, “I would like to ask you for just one small favor. ¹  Please don’t refuse me.” ²  He said, ³  “Go ahead and ask, my mother, for I would not refuse you.”

1 Kings 14:6

14:6 When Ahijah heard the sound of her footsteps as she came through the door, he said, “Come on in, wife of Jeroboam! Why are you pretending to be someone else? I have been commissioned to give you bad news. ⁴ 

1 Kings 19:4

19:4 while he went a day’s journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub ⁵  and asked the Lord to take his life: ⁶  “I’ve had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.” ⁷ 

¹ tn Or “I’d like to make just one request of you.”

² tn Heb “Do not turn back my face.”

³ tn Heb “and the king said to her.”

⁴ tn Heb “I am sent to you [with] a hard [message].”

⁷ tn Or “broom tree” (also in v. 5).

⁸ tn Heb “and asked with respect to his life to die.”

⁹ tn Heb “fathers.”