What does 1 Kings 1:16 mean?

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Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

• 1 Kings 2:20

  Then she said, I ask one small petition of thee; deny me not. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother; for I will not deny thee.

• Matthew 20:32

  And Jesus stood still, and called them, and said, What will ye that I should do unto you?

• 1 Samuel 24:8

  David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth, and did obeisance.

• 1 Samuel 20:41

  And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of a place toward the South, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.

• 1 Samuel 25:23

  And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and alighted from her ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground.

• Esther 7:2

  And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.

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