1 Kings 20:37

World English Bible (2000)

Then he found another man, and said, "Please strike me." The man struck him, smiting and wounding him.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 21:12 : 12 "One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,
  • 1 Kgs 20:35 : 35 A certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow by the word of Yahweh, "Please strike me!" The man refused to strike him.

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

    35 A certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow by the word of Yahweh, "Please strike me!" The man refused to strike him.

    36 Then he said to him, "Because you have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh, behold, as soon as you are departed from me, a lion shall kill you." As soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and killed him.

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

    38 So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with his headband over his eyes.

    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.'

    40 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."

    41 He hurried, and took the headband away from his eyes; and the king of Israel recognized that he was of the prophets.

    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.'"

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

    15 David called one of the young men, and said, "Go near, and fall on him." He struck him, so that he died.

    16 David said to him, "Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, 'I have slain Yahweh's anointed.'"

  • 2 Chr 18:33
    74%

    33 A certain man drew his bow at random, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor. Therefore he said to the driver of the chariot, "Turn your hand, and carry me out of the army; for I am severely wounded."

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

    24 When he had gone, a lion met him by the way, and killed him. His body was cast in the way, and the donkey stood by it. The lion also stood by the body.

    25 Behold, men passed by, and saw the body cast in the way, and the lion standing by the body; and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet lived.

    26 When the prophet who brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, "It is the man of God who was disobedient to the mouth of Yahweh. Therefore Yahweh has delivered him to the lion, which has mauled him and slain him, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke to him."

  • 1 Kgs 22:34
    73%

    34 A certain man drew his bow at random, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor. Therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, "Turn your hand, and carry me out of the battle; for I am severely wounded."

  • 1 Sam 17:35
    72%

    35 I went out after him, and struck him, and rescued it out of his mouth. When he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and struck him, and killed him.

  • 2 Sam 1:9
    72%

    9 He said to me, 'Please stand beside me, and kill me; for anguish has taken hold of me, because my life is yet whole in me.'

  • Num 35:20-23
    4 verses
    71%

    20 If he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died,

    21 or in enmity struck him with his hand, so that he died; he who struck him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him.

    22 "'But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait,

    23 or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm;

  • Isa 27:7
    71%

    7 Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or are they killed like those who killed them were killed?

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

    18 He said, "Take the arrows;" and he took them. He said to the king of Israel, "Strike the ground;" and he struck three times, and stopped.

    19 The man of God was angry with him, and said, "You should have struck five or six times. Then you would have struck Syria until you had consumed it, whereas now you shall strike Syria just three times."

  • Exod 21:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

    18 "If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn't die, but is confined to bed;

    19 if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.

  • 2 Chr 25:16
    71%

    16 It happened, as he talked with him, that [the king] said to him, "Have we made you one of the king's counselors? Stop! Why should you be struck down?" Then the prophet stopped, and said, "I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this, and have not listened to my counsel."

  • 2 Kgs 6:31
    71%

    31 Then he said, "God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stay on him this day."

  • Ps 69:26
    71%

    26 For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.

  • Exod 2:13
    71%

    13 He went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the wrong, "Why do you strike your fellow?"

  • 2 Kgs 7:20
    71%

    20 It happened like that to him; for the people trod on him in the gate, and he died.

  • Luke 20:12
    70%

    12 He sent yet a third, and they also wounded him, and threw him out.

  • Exod 21:12
    70%

    12 "One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,

  • Amos 5:19
    70%

    19 As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.

  • 2 Kgs 6:21
    70%

    21 The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, "My father, shall I strike them? Shall I strike them?"

  • 1 Kgs 13:14
    70%

    14 He went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak. He said to him, "Are you the man of God who came from Judah?" He said, "I am."

  • Prov 23:35
    70%

    35 "They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don't feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another."

  • 2 Kgs 7:17
    70%

    17 The king appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to be in charge of the gate: and the people trod on him in the gate, and he died as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king came down to him.

  • 1 Kgs 18:9
    70%

    9 He said, "Wherein have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?

  • 1 Sam 17:30
    70%

    30 He turned away from him toward another, and spoke like that again; and the people answered him again the same way.

  • Mark 12:4
    70%

    4 Again, he sent another servant to them; and they threw stones at him, wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated.

  • 1 Sam 24:19
    70%

    19 For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away unharmed? Therefore may Yahweh reward you good for that which you have done to me this day.

  • 2 Sam 14:6
    70%

    6 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 killed him.

  • 2 Kgs 6:18
    70%

    18 When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to Yahweh, and said, "Please strike this people with blindness." He struck them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.

  • Isa 57:17
    69%

    17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I angry, and struck him; I hid [my face] and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

  • Lev 24:19-20
    2 verses
    69%

    19 If anyone injures his neighbor; as he has done, so shall it be done to him:

    20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has injured someone, so shall it be done to him.

  • 1 Kgs 13:28
    69%

    28 He went and found his body cast in the way, and the donkey and the lion standing by the body. The lion had not eaten the body, nor mauled the donkey.

  • 1 Kgs 13:21
    69%

    21 and he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Because you have been disobedient to the mouth of Yahweh, and have not kept the commandment which Yahweh your God commanded you,

  • Exod 21:25
    69%

    25 burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.