Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
2 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “ask” →
Then the king answered and said unto the woman, Hide not from me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall ask thee. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.
Then she spake, saying, They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask counsel at Abel: and so they ended the matter .