Quotes About Request

“Listen to their voice,” the LORD said to Samuel. “Appoint a king for them.” Then Samuel told the men of Israel, “Everyone must go back to his city.”

Now here is the king you have chosen, the one you requested. Behold, the LORD has placed a king over you.

Is it not the wheat harvest today? I will call on the LORD to send thunder and rain, so that you will know and see what a great evil you have committed in the sight of the LORD by asking for a king.”

And Saul commanded his servants, “Find me someone who plays well, and bring him to me.”

If your father misses me at all, tell him, ëDavid urgently requested my permission to hurry to Bethlehem, his hometown, because there is an annual sacrifice for his whole clan.í

Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever can be found.”

Ask your young men, and they will tell you. So let my young men find favor with you, for we have come on the day of a feast. Please give whatever you can afford to your servants and to your son David.í”

Then David accepted from her hand what she had brought him, and he said to her, “Go home in peace. See, I have heeded your voice and granted your request.”

Then David said to Achish, “If I have found favor in your eyes, let me be assigned a place in one of the outlying towns, so I can live there. For why should your servant live in the royal city with you?”

Jonadab told him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ëPlease let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare it in my sight so I may watch her and eat it from her hand.í”

So Amnon lay down and feigned illness. When the king came to see him, Amnon said, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, so that I may eat from her hand.”

And he went to the king and said, “Your servant has just hired shearers. Will the king and his servants please come with me?”

“If not,” said Absalom, “please let my brother Amnon go with us.” “Why should he go with you?” the king asked.

Now therefore, I have come to present this matter to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. Your servant thought, ëI will speak to the king. Perhaps he will grant the request of his maidservant.

Then the king said to Joab, “I hereby grant this request. Go, bring back the young man Absalom.”

Joab fell facedown in homage and blessed the king. “Today,” said Joab, “your servant knows that he has found favor with you, my lord the king, because the king has granted his request.”

And Bathsheba bowed down in homage to the king, who asked, “What is your desire?”

So now I have just one request of you; do not deny me.” “State your request,” she told him.

Adonijah replied, “Please speak to King Solomon, since he will not turn you down. Let him give me Abishag the Shunammite as my wife.”

“I have just one small request of you,” she said. “Do not deny me.” “Make your request, my mother,” the king replied, “for I will not deny you.”

King Solomon answered his mother, “Why do you request Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Since he is my older brother, you might as well request the kingdom for him and for Abiathar the priest and for Joab son of Zeruiah!”

Then King Solomon swore by the LORD: “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if Adonijah has not made this request at the expense of his life.

One night at Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream, and God said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!”

Now it pleased the Lord that Solomon had made this request.