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1 Kings 20:39
“As the king passed by, he cried to the king; and he said, "Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man to me, and said, 'Guard this man! If by any means he be missing, then your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.”
1 Kings 20:39 in the King James Version
And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he said, Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver.Read 1 Kings 20:39 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — 1 Kings 20
Then he found another man, and said, "Please strike me." The man struck him, smiting and wounding him.
So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with his headband over his eyes.
As the king passed by, he cried to the king; and he said, "Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man to me, and said, 'Guard this man! If by any means he be missing, then your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.
As your servant was busy here and there, he was gone." The king of Israel said to him, "So your judgment shall be; yourself have decided it.
He hurried, and took the headband away from his eyes; and the king of Israel recognized that he was of the prophets.
Cross references for 1 Kings 20:39
- 2 Kings 10:24
They went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had appointed him eighty men outside, and said, "If any of the men whom I bring into your hands escape, he who lets him go, his life shall be for the life of him.
- 2 Samuel 14:5-7
The king said to her, "What ails you?" She answered, "Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead. Your handmaid had two sons, and they both fought together in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other, and k...
- Proverbs 6:35
He won't regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.
- Job 36:18
Don't let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.
- 1 Kings 20:42
He said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people.
- Judges 9:7-20
When they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said to them, "Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you. The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king...
- Exodus 21:30
If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid on him.
- 1 Peter 1:18-19
knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, but with precious blood, as of a faultless and pure lamb, the blood of Christ;
- 2 Samuel 12:1-7
Yahweh sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, "There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had very many flocks and herds, but the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, which he...
- Proverbs 13:8
The ransom of a man's life is his riches, but the poor hear no threats.
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Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
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