1 Kings 20:35-43 Then spake there a man amonge the children of the prophetes vnto his neghboure by the worde of the LORDE: I praye the smite me. But he refused to smite him.

Coverdale⁽ⁱ⁾ ³⁵ Then spake there a man amonge the children of the prophetes vnto his neghboure by the worde of the LORDE: I praye the smite me. But he refused to smite him. ³⁶ Then saide he vnto him, because thou hast not herkened vnto the voyce of the LORDE, beholde, therfore shall there a lyon smyte the, whan thou goest fro me. And whan he wente fro him, a lyon founde him, and slewe him. ³⁷ And he founde another man, and sayde: I praye the smyte me. And the man smote him, and wounded him, ³⁸ Then wente the prophet, and stepte vnto the kynge by the waye syde, and altered his face with a?shes. ³⁹ And whan the kynge wente by, he cried vpon ye kynge, and sayde: Thy seruaunt wente forth in to the battayll, and beholde, there wente one asyde, and broughte a man vnto me, and sayde: Kepe this ma: yf he be myssed, thy soule shall be in steade of his soule, or els thou shalt weye downe an hundreth weighte of syluer. ⁴⁰ And whyle thy seruaunt had here & there to do, he was awaye. The kynge of Israel sayde vnto him: It is thine owne iudgment, thou hast geuen it thyselfe. ⁴¹ Then put he the a?shes from his face in all the haist. And the kynge of Israel knewe him, that he was one of the prophetes. ⁴² And he sayde vnto him: Thus sayeth the LORDE: Because thou hast let the damned man go, therfore shall thy soule be for his soule, and thy people for his people. ⁴³ And the kynge of Israel departed vnto his house, beinge troubled in his mynde and full indignacion, and came to Samaria.