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1 Kings 20:42

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He said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life will take the place of his life, and your people take the place of his people.’ ”

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  • Did God bring evil upon Ahab?

    1 Kings 21:27-29 has Yahweh promising that because Ahab humbled himself, the threatened evil would not come in his days but in his son's. 1 Kings 20:42 has the prophet telling Ahab that because he released Ben-Hadad, his own life would be forfeit.

    Critical scholarship: Usually considered reconciled.

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