And now I ask one petition of thee,.... And but one, and a small one too, as Bathsheba herself after calls it:
deny me not, or "turn not away my face" t; with shame and sorrow, which would be the case should he be denied:
and she said unto him, say on; let me hear it.
t תשיבי את פני "ne avertere facias faciem meam", Pagninus.