Christian Standard Bible
1 Kings 20:37
37The prophet found another man and said to him, “Strike me!” So the man struck him, inflicting a wound.
1 Kings 20:37 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man smote him, so that in smiting he wounded him.
- New International Version (NIV)The prophet found another man and said, “Strike me, please.” So the man struck him and wounded him.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Then he found another man and said, "Strike me, please." And the man struck him—struck him and wounded him.
- New King James Version (NKJV)And he found another man, and said, “Strike me, please.” So the man struck him, inflicting a wound.
Context of 1 Kings 20:37
35One of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow prophet by the word of the Lord, “Strike me!” But the man refused to strike him. 36He told him, “Because you did not listen to the Lord, mark my words: When you leave me, a lion will kill you.” When he left him, a lion attacked and killed him. The prophet found another man and said to him, “Strike me!” So the man struck him, inflicting a wound. 38Then the prophet went and waited for the king on the road. He disguised himself with a bandage over his eyes. 39As the king was passing by, he cried out to the king and said, “Your servant marched out into the middle of the battle. Suddenly, a man turned aside and brought someone to me and said, ‘Guard this man! If he is ever missing, it will be your life in place of his life, or you will weigh out seventy-five pounds of silver.’
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וַיִּמְצָא֙ אִ֣ישׁ אַחֵ֔ר וַיֹּ֖אמֶר הַכֵּ֣ינִי נָ֑א וַיַּכֵּ֥הוּ הָאִ֖ישׁ הַכֵּ֥ה וּפָצֹֽעַ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for 1 Kings 20:37
- Judges 9:7When they told Jotham, he climbed to the top of Mount Gerizim, raised his voice, and called to them: Listen to me, citizens of Shechem, and may God listen to you:
- 2 Samuel 12:1So the Lord sent Nathan to David. When he arrived, he said to him: There were two men in a certain city, one rich and the other poor.
- 2 Samuel 14:5“What’s the matter?” the king asked her. “Sadly, I am a widow; my husband died,” she said.
- Mark 12:1He began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug out a pit for a winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went away.
- 1 Kings 20:42The prophet said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Because you released from your hand the man I had set apart for destruction, it will be your life in place of his life and your people in place of his people.’”
- 2 Kings 10:24Then they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside, and he warned them, “Whoever allows any of the men I am placing in your hands to escape will forfeit his life for theirs.”
- Exodus 21:30If instead a ransom is demanded of him, he can pay a redemption price for his life in the full amount demanded from him.
- Job 36:18Be careful that no one lures you with riches; do not let a large ransom lead you astray.
- Psalms 49:7Yet these cannot redeem a person or pay his ransom to God —
- Proverbs 6:35He will not be appeased by anything or be persuaded by lavish bribes.
- Proverbs 13:8Riches are a ransom for a person’s life, but a poor person hears no threat.
- 1 Peter 1:18For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold,
Commentaries on 1 Kings 20:37
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 31-43Verses 31-43 This encouragement sinners have to repent and humble themselves before God; Have we not heard, that the God of Israel is a merciful God? Have we not found him so? That is gospel repentance, which flows from an apprehension of the mercy of God, in Christ; there is forgiveness with him. What a change is here! The most haughty in prosperity often are most abject in adversity; an evil spirit will thus affect a man in both these conditions. There…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 35-43Ahab showed mercy to Ben-hadad, which displeased God. An unnamed prophet used symbolic actions to show this disapproval. God's prophets often used symbols to deliver his messages (Isaiah 20; Jeremiah 27:1–7; Ezekiel 4:1–3, 9–17; 5:1–4). By sparing an untrustworthy enemy, Ahab brought judgment on himself and his people instead of relying more on the Lord.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 35-3835-38. Smite me--This prophet is supposed (1Ki 20:8) to have been Micaiah. The refusal of his neighbor to smite the prophet was manifestly wrong, as it was a withholding of necessary aid to a prophet in the discharge of a duty to which he had been called by God, and it was severely punished [1Ki 20:36], as a beacon to warn others (see on 1Ki 13:2-24). The prophet found a willing assistant, and then, waiting for Ahab, leads the king unconsciously, in the…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Kings 20
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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