42 The prophet said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Because you released from your hand the man I had set apart for destruction,(A) it will be your life in place of his life and your people in place of his people.’”

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42 He said to the king, “This is what the Lord says: ‘You(A) have set free a man I had determined should die.[a](B) Therefore it is your life for his life,(C) your people for his people.’”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 20:42 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them.