King James Version
1 Kings 2:18 in the King James Version says “And Bathsheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto the king.” — study this verse from 1 Kings chapter 2 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And Bathsheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto the king.”
1 Kings 2:18 · KJV
And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not. And she said unto him, Say on. deny: Heb. turn not away my face
And he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, (for he will not say thee nay,) that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.
And Bathsheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto the king.
Bathsheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.
Then she said, I desire one small petition of thee; I pray thee, say me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother: for I will not say thee nay.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Well”
H2896good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good
“I will speak”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
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