1 Kings 20 42
He told the king, “This is what the Lord says: You have let go a man I had decided should die. Therefore you will pay for his life with your life, your people for his people.”
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AMP 1 Kings 20:42And he said to the king, Thus says the Lord: Because you have let go out of your hand the man I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people.
LSV 1 Kings 20:42and he says to him, “Thus said YHWH: Because you have sent away the man I devoted, out of your hand, even your life has been for his life, and your people for his people”;
NCV 1 Kings 20:42The prophet said to the king, “This is what the Lord says: ‘You freed the man I said should die, so your life will be taken instead of his. The lives of your people will also be taken instead of the lives of his people.’ ”