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?”
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1 Kings 1:16
16 And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. And the king said, What wouldest thou?