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1 Kings 20:39
New English Translation
1 Kings 20:39
New English Translation
39 When the king passed by, he called out to the king, “Your servant went out into the heat[a] of the battle, and then a man turned aside and brought me a prisoner.[b] He told me, ‘Guard this prisoner. If he ends up missing for any reason,[c] you will pay with your life or with a talent[d] of silver.’[e]
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- 1 Kings 20:39 tn Heb “middle.”
- 1 Kings 20:39 tn Heb “man” (also a second time later in this verse).
- 1 Kings 20:39 tn Heb “if being missed, he is missed.” The emphatic infinitive absolute before the finite verbal form lends solemnity to the warning.
- 1 Kings 20:39 tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 75 pounds of silver.
- 1 Kings 20:39 tn Heb “your life will be in place of his life, or a unit of silver you will pay.”
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