1 Kings 20:37

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

He found another man and said,“Wound me!” So the man wounded him severely.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 21:12 : 12 Personal Injuries“Whoever strikes someone so that he dies must surely be put to death.
  • 1 Kgs 20:35 : 35 A Prophet Denounces Ahab’s Actions One of the members of the prophetic guild, told his companion a message from the LORD,“Please wound me!” But the man refused to wound him.

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  • 1 Kgs 20:35-36
    2 verses
    84%

    35A Prophet Denounces Ahab’s Actions One of the members of the prophetic guild, told his companion a message from the LORD,“Please wound me!” But the man refused to wound him.

    36So the prophet said to him,“Because you have disobeyed the LORD, as soon as you leave me a lion will kill you.” When he left him, a lion attacked and killed him.

  • 1 Kgs 20:38-42
    5 verses
    76%

    38The prophet then went and stood by the road, waiting for the king. He also disguised himself by putting a bandage down over his eyes.

    39When the king passed by, he called out to the king,“Your servant went out into the heat of the battle, and then a man turned aside and brought me a prisoner. He told me,‘Guard this prisoner. If he ends up missing for any reason, you will pay with your life or with a talent of silver.’

    40Well, it just so happened that while your servant was doing this and that, he disappeared.” The king of Israel said to him,“Your punishment is already determined by your own testimony.”

    41The prophet quickly removed the bandage from his eyes and the king of Israel recognized he was one of the prophets.

    42The prophet then said to him,“This is what the LORD has said,‘Because you released a man I had determined should die, you will pay with your life and your people will suffer instead of his people.’”

  • 2 Sam 1:15-16
    2 verses
    75%

    15Then David called one of the soldiers and said,“Come here and strike him down!” So he struck him down, and he died.

    16David said to him,“Your blood be on your own head! Your own mouth has testified against you, saying‘I have put the LORD’s anointed to death.’”

  • 2 Chr 18:33
    74%

    33Now an archer shot an arrow at random and it struck the king of Israel between the plates of his armor. The king ordered his charioteer,“Turn around and take me from the battle line, for I am wounded.”

  • 1 Kgs 13:24-26
    3 verses
    74%

    24So the prophet from Judah travelled on. Then a lion attacked him on the road and killed him.There was his body lying on the road, with the donkey standing next to it, and the lion just standing there by the body.

    25Then some men came passing by and saw the body lying in the road with the lion standing next to the body. They went and reported what they had seen in the city where the old prophet lived.

    26When the old prophet who had invited him to his house heard the news, he said,“It is the prophet who rebelled against the LORD. The LORD delivered him over to the lion and it tore him up and killed him, in keeping with the LORD’S message that he had spoken to him.”

  • 1 Kgs 22:34
    73%

    34Now an archer shot an arrow at random, and it struck the king of Israel between the plates of his armor. The king ordered his charioteer,“Turn around and take me from the battle line, because I’m wounded.”

  • 1 Sam 17:35
    72%

    35I would go out after it, strike it down, and rescue the sheep from its mouth. If it rose up against me, I would grab it by its jaw, strike it, and kill it.

  • 2 Sam 1:9
    72%

    9He said to me,‘Stand over me and finish me off! I’m very dizzy, even though I’m still alive.’

  • Num 35:20-23
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    71%

    20“But if he strikes him out of hatred or throws something at him intentionally so that he dies,

    21or with enmity he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must surely be put to death, for he is a murderer. The avenger of blood must kill the murderer when he meets him.

    22“But if he strikes him suddenly, without enmity, or throws anything at him unintentionally,

    23or with any stone large enough that a man could die, without seeing him, and throws it at him, and he dies, even though he was not his enemy nor sought his harm,

  • Isa 27:7
    71%

    7Has the LORD struck down Israel like he did their oppressors? Has Israel been killed like their enemies?

  • 2 Kgs 13:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

    18Then Elisha said,“Take the arrows,” and he did so. He told the king of Israel,“Strike the ground!” He struck the ground three times and stopped.

    19The prophet got angry at him and said,“If you had struck the ground five or six times, you would have annihilated Syria! But now, you will defeat Syria only three times.”

  • Exod 21:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

    18“If men fight, and one strikes his neighbor with a stone or with his fist and he does not die, but must remain in bed,

    19and then if he gets up and walks about outside on his staff, then the one who struck him is innocent, except he must pay for the injured person’s loss of time and see to it that he is fully healed.

  • 2 Chr 25:16
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    16While he was speaking, Amaziah said to him,“Did we appoint you to be a royal counselor? Stop prophesying or else you will be killed!” So the prophet stopped, but added,“I know that God has decided to destroy you, because you have done this thing and refused to listen to my advice.”

  • 2 Kgs 6:31
    71%

    31Then he said,“May God judge me severely if Elisha son of Shaphat still has his head by the end of the day!”

  • Ps 69:26
    71%

    26For they harass the one whom you discipline; they spread the news about the suffering of those whom you punish.

  • Exod 2:13
    71%

    13When he went out the next day, there were two Hebrew men fighting. So he said to the one who was in the wrong,“Why are you attacking your fellow Hebrew?”

  • 2 Kgs 7:20
    71%

    20This is exactly what happened to him. The people trampled him to death in the city gate.

  • Luke 20:12
    70%

    12So he sent still a third. They even wounded this one, and threw him out.

  • Exod 21:12
    70%

    12Personal Injuries“Whoever strikes someone so that he dies must surely be put to death.

  • Amos 5:19
    70%

    19Disaster will be inescapable, as if a man ran from a lion only to meet a bear, then escaped into a house, leaned his hand against the wall, and was bitten by a poisonous snake.

  • 2 Kgs 6:21
    70%

    21When the king of Israel saw them, he asked Elisha,“Should I strike them down, my master?”

  • 1 Kgs 13:14
    70%

    14and took off after the prophet, whom he found sitting under an oak tree. He asked him,“Are you the prophet from Judah?” He answered,“Yes, I am.”

  • Prov 23:35
    70%

    35You will say,“They have struck me, but I am not harmed! They beat me, but I did not know it! When will I awake? I will look for another drink.”

  • 2 Kgs 7:17
    70%

    17Now the king had placed the officer who was his right-hand man at the city gate. When the people rushed out, they trampled him to death in the gate. This fulfilled the prophet’s word which he had spoken when the king tried to arrest him.

  • 1 Kgs 18:9
    70%

    9Obadiah said,“What sin have I committed that you are ready to hand your servant over to Ahab for execution?

  • 1 Sam 17:30
    70%

    30Then he turned from those who were nearby to someone else and asked the same question, but they gave him the same answer as before.

  • Mark 12:4
    70%

    4So he sent another slave to them again. This one they struck on the head and treated outrageously.

  • 1 Sam 24:19
    70%

    19Now if a man finds his enemy, does he send him on his way in good shape? May the LORD repay you with good this day for what you have done to me.

  • 2 Sam 14:6
    70%

    6Your servant has two sons. When the two of them got into a fight in the field, there was no one present who could intervene. One of them struck the other and killed him.

  • 2 Kgs 6:18
    70%

    18As they approached him, Elisha prayed to the LORD,“Strike these people with blindness.” The LORD struck them with blindness as Elisha requested.

  • Isa 57:17
    69%

    17I was angry because of their sinful greed; I attacked them and angrily rejected them, yet they remained disobedient and stubborn.

  • Lev 24:19-20
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    69%

    19If a man inflicts an injury on his fellow citizen, just as he has done it must be done to him–

    20fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth– just as he inflicts an injury on another person that same injury must be inflicted on him.

  • 1 Kgs 13:28
    69%

    28He went and found the body lying in the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside it; the lion had neither eaten the body nor attacked the donkey.

  • 1 Kgs 13:21
    69%

    21So he cried out to the prophet who had come from Judah,“This is what the LORD has said,‘You have rebelled against the LORD’s instruction and have not obeyed the command the LORD your God gave you.

  • Exod 21:25
    69%

    25burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.