16 Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance to the king. The king said, "What would you like?"
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Bath-sheba bowed, like the woman of Tekoah 2-Samuel 14:4, with the humble prostration of a suppliant. Hence, the king's question, "What wouldest thou?"
And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance to the king,.... Not only as being her husband, but her sovereign; and this behaviour might intimate, that she had something to say to him, and more than to inquire of his health:
and the king said, wouldest thou? what hast thou to say to me? or to ask of me? what is thy will and pleasure, or thine errand to me?
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