1 Kings 20:37 KJV — MannaFest

1 Kings 20:37

Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man smote him, so that in smiting he wounded him.

KJV

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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.

WEB

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

YLT

And he findeth another man, and saith, `Smite me, I pray thee;' and the man smiteth him, smiting and wounding,

DBT

Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man smote him violently, and wounded [him].

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1 Kings — From Solomon's glory to the divided kingdom — then Elijah's confrontation with Ahab and Jezebel dominating the second half. The promise of the Davidic covenant unfolding through temple glory, then beginning to unravel as idolatry and political fragmentation take hold.

Author: Compiler anonymous; Jewish tradition attributes to Jeremiah (Bava Batra 15a). The book draws on court annals and prophetic records cited by name.
Date: Events c. 970–852 BC; compilation during the late Judahite monarchy or exile

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1 Kings 20:35
And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his neighbour in the word of the Lord, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man refused to smite him.
Exodus 21:12
He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.

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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).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

2 And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and said unto him, Thus saith Benhadad, 3 Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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