1 Kings 20:42

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And he said to him, These are the words of the Lord: Because you have let go from your hands the man whom I had put to the curse, your life will be taken for his life, and your people for his people.

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  • 1 Kgs 22:31-37 : 31 Now the king of Aram had given orders to the thirty-two captains of his war-carriages, saying, Make no attack on small or great, but only on the king of Israel. 32 So when the captains of the war-carriages saw Jehoshaphat, they said, Truly, this is the king of Israel; and turning against him, they came round him, but Jehoshaphat gave a cry. 33 And when the captains of the war-carriages saw that he was not the king of Israel, they went back from going after him. 34 And a certain man sent an arrow from his bow without thought of its direction, and gave the king of Israel a wound where his breastplate was joined to his clothing; so he said to the driver of his war-carriage, Go to one side and take me away out of the army, for I am badly wounded. 35 But the fight became more violent while the day went on; and the king was supported in his war-carriage facing the Aramaeans, and the floor of the carriage was covered with the blood from his wound, and by evening he was dead. 36 And about sundown a cry went up from all parts of the army, saying, Let every man go back to his town and his country, for the king is dead. 37 And they came to Samaria, and put the king's body to rest in Samaria.
  • 1 Kgs 20:39 : 39 And when the king went by, crying out to him he said, Your servant went out into the fight; and a man came out to me with another man and said, Keep this man: if by any chance he gets away, your life will be the price of his life, or you will have to give a talent of silver in payment.
  • 1 Sam 15:9-9 : 9 But Saul and the people did not put Agag to death, and they kept the best of the sheep and the oxen and the fat beasts and the lambs, and whatever was good, not desiring to put them to the curse: but everything which was bad and of no use they put to the curse. 10 Then the Lord said to Samuel, 11 It is no longer my pleasure for Saul to be king; for he is turned back from going in my ways, and has not done my orders. And Samuel was very sad, crying to the Lord in prayer all night.
  • 1 Kgs 20:34 : 34 And Ben-hadad said to him, The towns my father took from your father I will give back; and you may make streets for yourself in Damascus as my father did in Samaria. And as for me, at the price of this agreement you will let me go. So he made an agreement with him and let him go.
  • 2 Kgs 6:24 : 24 Now after this, Ben-hadad, king of Aram, got together all his army and went up to make an attack on Samaria, shutting the town in on all sides with his forces.
  • 2 Kgs 8:12 : 12 And Hazael said, Why is my lord weeping? Then he said in answer, Because I see the evil which you will do to the children of Israel: burning down their strong towns, putting their young men to death with the sword, smashing their little ones against the stones, and cutting open the women who are with child.
  • 2 Chr 18:33-34 : 33 And a certain man sent an arrow from his bow without thought of its direction, and gave the king of Israel a wound where his breastplate was joined to his clothing; so he said to the driver of his war-carriage, Go to one side and take me away out of the army, for I am badly wounded. 34 But the fight became more violent while the day went on; and the king of Israel was supported in his war-carriage facing the Aramaeans till the evening; and by sundown he was dead.

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  • 1 Kgs 20:39-41
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    39 And when the king went by, crying out to him he said, Your servant went out into the fight; and a man came out to me with another man and said, Keep this man: if by any chance he gets away, your life will be the price of his life, or you will have to give a talent of silver in payment.

    40 But while your servant was turning this way and that, he was gone. Then the king of Israel said to him, You are responsible; you have given the decision against yourself.

    41 Then he quickly took the head-band from his eyes; and the king of Israel saw that he was one of the prophets.

  • 1 Kgs 20:43
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    43 Then the king of Israel went back to his house, bitter and angry, and came to Samaria.

  • 1 Kgs 13:21
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    21 And crying out to the man of God who came from Judah, he said, The Lord says, Because you have gone against the voice of the Lord, and have not done as you were ordered by the Lord,

  • 1 Kgs 20:35-37
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    35 And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his neighbour by the word of the Lord, Give me a wound. But the man would not.

    36 Then he said to him, Because you have not given ear to the voice of the Lord, straight away when you have gone from me a lion will put you to death. And when he had gone, straight away a lion came rushing at him and put him to death.

    37 Then he came across another man, and said, Give me a wound. And the man gave him a blow wounding him.

  • 1 Kgs 18:9
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    9 And he said, What sin have I done, that you would give up your servant into the hand of Ahab, and be the cause of my death?

  • 2 Kgs 7:17
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    17 And the king gave authority to that captain, on whose arm he was supported, to have control over the doorway into the town; but he was crushed to death there under the feet of the people, as the man of God had said when the king went down to him.

  • Jer 11:21
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    21 So this is what the Lord of armies has said about the men of Anathoth who have made designs against your life, saying, You are not to be a prophet in the name of the Lord, or death will overtake you by our hands:

  • 1 Kgs 21:19-20
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    19 Say to him, The Lord says, Have you put a man to death and taken his heritage? Then say to him, The Lord says, In the place where dogs have been drinking the blood of Naboth, there will your blood become the drink of dogs.

    20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you come face to face with me, O my hater? And he said, I have come to you because you have given yourself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord.

  • Jer 15:2
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    2 And it will be, when they say to you, Where are we to go? then you are to say to them, The Lord has said, Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are to be in need of food, to need of food; and such as are to be taken away prisoners, to be taken away.

  • 2 Chr 25:16
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    16 But while he was talking to him the king said to him, Have we made you one of the king's government? say no more, or it will be the cause of your death. Then the prophet gave up protesting, and said, It is clear to me that God's purpose is your destruction, because you have done this and have not given ear to my words.

  • 1 Kgs 20:13
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    13 Then a prophet came up to Ahab, king of Israel, and said, The Lord says, Have you seen all this great army? See, I will give it into your hands today, and you will see that I am the Lord.

  • 1 Kgs 19:17
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    17 And it will come about that the man who gets away safe from the sword of Hazael, Jehu will put to death; and whoever gets away safe from the sword of Jehu, Elisha will put to death.

  • 1 Sam 22:16
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    16 And the king said, You will certainly be put to death, Ahimelech, you and all your father's family.

  • 1 Kgs 13:26
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    26 Then the prophet who had made him come back, hearing it, said, It is the man of God, who went against the word of the Lord; that is why the Lord has given him to the lion to be wounded to death, as the Lord said.

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    24 Then they went in to make offerings and burned offerings. Now Jehu had put eighty men outside, and said to them, If any man whom I give into your hands gets away, the life of him who lets him go will be the price of his life.

  • 2 Kgs 3:13
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    13 But Elisha said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with you? go to the prophets of your father and your mother. And the king of Israel said, No; for the Lord has got these three kings together to give them up into the hands of Moab.

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    4 Because of your value in my eyes, you have been honoured, and loved by me; so I will give men for you, and peoples for your life.

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    14 For fire came down from heaven and put an end to the first two captains of fifty and their fifties; but now let my life be of value in your eyes.

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    7 You are to see that the family of Ahab your master is cut off, so that I may take from Jezebel payment for the blood of my servants the prophets, and for the blood of all the servants of the Lord.

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    16 And he said to him, This is the word of the Lord: Because you sent men to put a question to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, for this reason you will never again get down from the bed on to which you have gone up, but death will certainly come to you.

  • 2 Kgs 6:21
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    21 And the king of Israel, when he saw them, said to Elisha, My father, am I to put them to the sword?

  • 2 Sam 1:16
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    16 And David said to him, May your blood be on your head; for your mouth has given witness against you, saying, I have put to death the man marked with the holy oil.

  • Jer 21:8
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    8 And to this people you are to say, The Lord has said, See, I put before you the way of life and the way of death.

  • 1 Kgs 18:14
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    14 And now you say, Go and say to your Lord, Elijah is here; and he will put me to death.

  • Deut 13:9
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    9 But put him to death without question; let your hand be the first stretched out against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.

  • 2 Sam 14:11
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    31 Then he said, May God's punishment come on me if Elisha, the son of Shaphat, keeps his head on his body after this day.

  • 2 Chr 34:26
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    26 But to the king of Judah who sent you to get directions from the Lord, say, This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said: Because you have given ear to my words,

  • Deut 19:21
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    21 Have no pity; let life be given for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

  • 1 Sam 24:19
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    19 And you have made clear to me how good you have been to me today: because, when the Lord gave me up into your hands, you did not put me to death.

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    10 And Elisha said to him, Go, say to him, You will certainly get better; but the Lord has made it clear to me that only death is before him.

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  • 1 Sam 28:17-18
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    17 And the Lord himself has done what I said: the Lord has taken the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbour David;

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    28 And a man of God came up and said to the king of Israel, The Lord says, Because the Aramaeans have said, The Lord is a god of the hills and not of the valleys; I will give all this great army into your hands, and you will see that I am the Lord.

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    39 For, by the living Lord, the saviour of Israel, even if the sinner is Jonathan, my son, death will certainly be his fate. But not a man among all the people gave him any answer.

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    9 And said to them, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to put your request before him:

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    6 And they said to him, On our way we had a meeting with a man who said, Go back to the king who sent you and say to him, The Lord says, Is it because there is no God in Israel that you send to put a question to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? For this reason, you will not come down from the bed on to which you have gone up, but death will certainly come to you.

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    14 Then he went away from Elisha and came in to his master, who said to him, What did Elisha say to you? And his answer was, He said that you would certainly get well.

  • Jer 26:16
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    16 Then the rulers and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, It is not right for this man to be put to death: for he has said words to us in the name of the Lord our God.

  • 2 Kgs 7:20
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    20 And such was his fate; for he was crushed to death under the feet of the people, in the doorway into the town.

  • 1 Kgs 18:11
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    11 And now you say, Go, say to your lord, Elijah is here.

  • 1 Sam 14:44
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    44 And Saul said, May God's punishment be on me if death is not your fate, Jonathan.

  • 2 Kgs 22:18
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    18 But to the king of Judah who sent you to get directions from the Lord, say, This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said: As to the words which have come to your ears,