1 Kings 20:37 BSB — MannaFest

1 Kings 20:37

Then the prophet found another man and said, “Strike me, please!” So the man struck him and wounded him,

BSB

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ASV

Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man smote him, smiting and wounding him.

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.

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Commentary

1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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).

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

He fetched blood with the blow, probably in his face. Wounded as he was, and disguised with ashes that he might not be known to be a prophet, he made his application to the king in a story wherein he charged himself with such a crime as the king was now guilty of in sparing Ben-hadad, and waited for the king's judgment upon it.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּמְצָא֙	vai.yim.Tza'	and he found	H4672 →
אִ֣ישׁ	'ish	a man	H376 →
אַחֵ֔ר	'a.Cher	another	H312 →
וַיֹּ֖אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
הַכֵּ֣ינִי	ha.Kei.ni	strike me	H5221 →
נָ֑א	Na'	please	H4994 →
וַיַּכֵּ֥הוּ	vai.ya.Ke.hu	and he struck him	H5221 →
הָאִ֖ישׁ	ha.'Ish	the man	H376 →
הַכֵּ֥ה	ha.Keh	completely <to strike>	H5221 →
וּפָצֹֽעַ׃	u.fa.Tzo.a'	and wounded	H6481 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Exodus 21:12
Whoever strikes and kills a man must surely be put to death.
leads to
- Genesis 9:6
  Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.
- Matthew 26:52
  “Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him. “For all who draw the sword will die by the sword.
- Leviticus 24:17
  And if a man takes the life of anyone else, he must surely be put to death.
- Numbers 35:30–31
  If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death on the testimony of the witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of a…
- Numbers 35:16–24
  If, however, anyone strikes a person with an iron object and kills him, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.
Through
1 Kings 20:35
Meanwhile, by the word of the LORD, one of the sons of the prophets said to his companion, “Strike me, please!” But the man refused to strike him.
leads to
- 2 Kings 2:15
  When the sons of the prophets who were facing him from Jericho saw what had happened, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” And they went to meet him and bowed down…
- 1 Kings 13:17–18
  For I have been told by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water there or return by the way you came.’”
- 2 Kings 4:1
  Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And now his creditor…

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02Original language & word study

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06About 1 Kings

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

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