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42 (A)He said to him: “The Lord says, Because you have set free the man I put under the ban,[a] your life shall pay for his life, your people for his people.”

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  1. 20:42 Under the ban: cf. note on Dt 2:34.

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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  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.

42 And he said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Because thou hast let go out of thy hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people.

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