1 Kings 2:16

2:16 Now I’d like to ask you for just one thing. Please don’t refuse me.” ¹  She said, “Go ahead and ask.” ² 

1 Kings 3:11

3:11 God said to him, “Because you asked for the ability to make wise judicial decisions, and not for long life, or riches, or vengeance on your enemies, ³ 

1 Kings 3:10

3:10 The Lord ⁴  was pleased that Solomon made this request. ⁵ 

1 Kings 2:20

2:20 She said, “I would like to ask you for just one small favor. ⁶  Please don’t refuse me.” ⁷  He said, ⁸  “Go ahead and ask, my mother, for I would not refuse you.”

1 Kings 2:22

2:22 King Solomon answered his mother, “Why just request Abishag the Shunammite for him? ⁹  Since he is my older brother, you should also request the kingdom for him, for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab son of Zeruiah!”

1 Kings 3:5

3:5 One night in Gibeon the Lord appeared ¹⁰  to Solomon in a dream. God said, “Tell ¹¹  me what I should give you.”

1 Kings 3:13

3:13 Furthermore, I am giving ¹²  you what you did not request – riches and honor so that you will be the greatest king of your generation. ¹³ 

1 Kings 10:13

10:13 King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba everything she requested, besides what he had freely offered her. ¹⁴  Then she left and returned ¹⁵  to her homeland with her attendants.

1 Kings 19:4

19:4 while he went a day’s journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub ¹⁶  and asked the Lord to take his life: ¹⁷  “I’ve had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.” ¹⁸ 

[2:16]  ¹ tn Heb “Do not turn back my face.”

[2:16]  ² tn Heb “She said, ‘Speak!’”

[3:11]  ³ tn Heb “because you asked for this thing, and did not ask for yourself many days and did not ask for yourself riches and did not ask for the life of your enemies, but you asked for yourself understanding to hear judgment.”

[3:10]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew term translated “Lord” here and in v.15 is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

[3:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “And the thing was good in the eyes of the Lord, for Solomon asked for this thing.”

[2:20]  ⁷ tn Or “I’d like to make just one request of you.”

[2:20]  ⁸ tn Heb “Do not turn back my face.”

[2:20]  ⁹ tn Heb “and the king said to her.”

[2:22]  ⁹ tn Heb “for Adonijah.”

[3:5]  ¹¹ tn Or “revealed himself.”

[3:5]  ¹² tn Heb “ask.”

[3:13]  ¹³ tn The translation assumes that the perfect tense here indicates that the action occurs as the statement is made.

[3:13]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “so that there is not one among the kings like you all your days.” The LXX lacks the words “all your days.”

[10:13]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “besides what he had given her according to the hand of King Solomon.”

[10:13]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “turned and went.”

[19:4]  ¹⁷ tn Or “broom tree” (also in v. 5).

[19:4]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and asked with respect to his life to die.”

[19:4]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “fathers.”