Discovery Box1 Kings 2:20 
Context2:20 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 8:47
Context8:47 When your people 4 come to their senses 5 in the land where they are held prisoner, they will repent and beg for your mercy in the land of their imprisonment, admitting, ‘We have sinned and gone astray; 6 we have done evil.’
1 Kings 21:15
Context21:15 When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned to death, she 7 said to Ahab, “Get up, take possession of the vineyard Naboth the Jezreelite refused to sell you for silver, for Naboth is no longer alive; he’s dead.”
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 “they”; the referent (your people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Or “stop and reflect”; Heb “bring back to their heart.”
6 tn Or “done wrong.”
7 tn Heb “Jezebel”; the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“she”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
