Then he found another man, and said, “Please strike me.” The man struck him and wounded him.
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Then he found another man, and said, “Please strike me.” The man struck him and wounded him.
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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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Then he found another man, and said: 'Smite me, I pray thee.' And the man smote him, smiting and wounding him.
Cross-references (2)
Passages linked to 1 Kings 20:37 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 21:12 “One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,
- 1 Kings 20:35 A certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow by Yahweh’s word, “Please strike me!” The man refused to strike him.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Ki 20:37 Then he found another man, and said,…
1Ki 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].
Ver. 37. And the man smote him.] See on 1Ki 20:36.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Then he found another man, and said, smite me,…
Then he found another man, and said, smite me, I pray thee,.... This is not said to be his neighbour, nor one of the sons of the prophets, but a rustic man, and so stuck not to take him at his word:
and the man smote him, so that in smiting he wounded him; in his face; made some incision in his flesh, broke the skin, and fetched blood of him; perhaps somewhere about his eyes, by what follows: this he got done to him, that he might look like a wounded soldier, and thereby get the more easily to the speech of Ahab.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 37. so that in smiting he wounded him] The…
37. so that in smiting he wounded him] The R.V. has adopted the literal rendering which stands on the margin of A. V. smiting and wounding him. Josephus specifies the nature of the wound θραύσαντος αὐτοῦ τὸ κράνιον ‘breaking his head’. This of course is to be inferred from what follows.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Then he found another man, and said, Smite me,…
Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man smote him, so that in smiting he wounded him Heb. smiting and wounding. This last particular is apparently recorded to show how promptly and thoroughly this "other man," who is not said to have been a prophet, obeyed the charge. Probably he had the fate of the other before his eyes.
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
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