1 Kings 20:39 Cross References - BBE

³⁹ And when the king went by, crying out to him he said, Your servant went out into the fight; and a man came out to me with another man and said, Keep this man: if by any chance he gets away, your life will be the price of his life, or you will have to give a talent of silver in payment.

³⁰ If a price is put on his life, let him make payment of whatever price is fixed.

⁷ Now Jotham, on hearing of it, went to the top of Mount Gerizim, and crying out with a loud voice said to them, Give ear to me, you townsmen of Shechem, so that God may give ear to you. ⁸ One day the trees went out to make a king for themselves; and they said to the olive-tree, Be king over us. ⁹ But the olive-tree said to them, Am I to give up my wealth of oil, by which men give honour to God, and go waving over the trees? ¹⁰ Then the trees said to the fig-tree, You come and be king over us. ¹¹ But the fig-tree said to them, Am I to give up my sweet taste and my good fruit and go waving over the trees? ¹² Then the trees said to the vine, You come and be king over us. ¹³ But the vine said to them, Am I to give up my wine, which makes glad God and men, to go waving over the trees? ¹⁴ Then all the trees said to the thorn, You come and be king over us. ¹⁵ And the thorn said to the trees, If it is truly your desire to make me your king, then come and put your faith in my shade; and if not, may fire come out of the thorn, burning up the cedars of Lebanon. ¹⁶ So now, if you have done truly and uprightly in making Abimelech king, and if you have done well to Jerubbaal and his house in reward for the work of his hands; ¹⁷ {\I For my father made war for you, and put his life in danger, and made you free from the hands of Midian; ¹⁸ And you have gone against my father's family this day, and have put to death his sons, even seventy men on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his servant-wife, king over the townsmen of Shechem because he is your brother;} ¹⁹ If then you have done what is true and upright to Jerubbaal and his family this day, may you have joy in Abimelech, and may he have joy in you; ²⁰ But if not, may fire come out from Abimelech, burning up the townsmen of Shechem and Beth-millo; and may fire come out from the townsmen of Shechem and Beth-millo, for the destruction of Abimelech.

¹ And the Lord sent Nathan to David. And Nathan came to him and said, There were two men in the same town: one a man of great wealth, and the other a poor man. ² The man of wealth had great numbers of flocks and herds; ³ But the poor man had only one little she-lamb, which he had got and taken care of: from its birth it had been with him like one of his children; his meat was its food, and from his cup it took its drink, resting in his arms, and it was like a daughter to him. ⁴ Now a traveller came to the house of the man of wealth, but he would not take anything from his flock or his herd to make a meal for the traveller who had come to him, but he took the poor man's lamb and made it ready for the man who had come. ⁵ And David was full of wrath against that man; and he said to Nathan, By the living Lord, death is the right punishment for the man who has done this: ⁶ And he will have to give back four times the value of the lamb, because he has done this and because he had no pity. ⁷ And Nathan said to David, You are that man. The Lord God of Israel says, I made you king over Israel, putting holy oil on you, and I kept you safe from the hands of Saul;

⁵ And the king said to her, What is your trouble? And her answer was, Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead. ⁶ And I had two sons, and the two of them had a fight in the field, and there was no one to come between them, and one with a blow put the other to death. ⁷ And now all the family is turned against me, your servant, saying, Give up him who was the cause of his brother's death, so that we may put him to death in payment for the life of his brother, whose life he took; and we will put an end to the one who will get the heritage: so they will put out my last burning coal, and my husband will have no name or offspring on the face of the earth.

⁴² And he said to him, These are the words of the Lord: Because you have let go from your hands the man whom I had put to the curse, your life will be taken for his life, and your people for his people.

²⁴ Then they went in to make offerings and burned offerings. Now Jehu had put eighty men outside, and said to them, If any man whom I give into your hands gets away, the life of him who lets him go will be the price of his life.

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⁷ Truly, no man may get back his soul for a price, or give to God the payment for himself;

³⁵ He will not take any payment; and he will not make peace with you though your money offerings are increased.

⁸ A man will give his wealth in exchange for his life; but the poor will not give ear to sharp words.

¹ And he gave them teaching in the form of stories. A man had a vine-garden planted, and put a wall about it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and put up a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country. ² And when the time came, he sent a servant to get from the workmen some of the fruit of the garden. ³ And they took him, and gave him blows, and sent him away with nothing. ⁴ And again he sent to them another servant; and they gave him wounds on the head, and were very cruel to him. ⁵ And he sent another; and they put him to death: and a number of others, whipping some, and putting some to death. ⁶ He still had one, a dearly loved son: he sent him last to them, saying, They will have respect for my son. ⁷ But those workmen said among themselves, This is he who will one day be the owner of the property; come, let us put him to death, and the heritage will be ours. ⁸ And they took him and put him to death, pushing his body out of the garden. ⁹ What then will the master of the garden do? He will come and put the workmen to death, and will give the garden into the hands of others. ¹⁰ Have you not seen this which is in the Writings: The stone which the builders put on one side, the same was made the chief stone of the building: ¹¹ This was the Lord's doing, and it is a wonder in our eyes? ¹² And they made attempts to take him; but they were in fear of the people, because they saw that the story was against them; and they went away from him.

¹⁸ Being conscious that you have been made free from that foolish way of life which was your heritage from your fathers, not through a payment of things like silver or gold which come to destruction, ¹⁹ But through holy blood, like that of a clean and unmarked lamb, even the blood of Christ: