1 Kings 20:40 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁴⁰ And as your servant was busy here and there, he was gone.” The king of Israel said to him, “So shall your judgment be; you yourself have decided it.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁰ And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And the king of Israel said unto him, So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast decided it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁰ But while your servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And the king of Israel said to him, Such is your own verdict; you yourself have decided it.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁰ And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And the king of Israel said unto him, So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast decided it.

Common English Bible

⁴⁰ Your servant got busy doing this and that, and the prisoner disappeared.” Israel’s king replied, “It appears you have decided your own fate.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁰ And while I was distracted, turning one way and another, suddenly, he was not to be seen." And the king of Israel said to him, "This is your judgment, that which you yourself have decreed."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁰ And whilst I in a hurry turned this way and that on a sudden he was not to be seen. And the king of Israel said to him: This is thy judgment, which thyself hast decreed.

1 Kings 20:40 Cross References

2 Samuel 12:1

And the Lord sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, “There were two men in a certain city, the one rich and the other poor.

2 Samuel 14:13

And the woman said, “Why then have you planned such a thing against the people of God? For in giving this decision the king convicts himself, inasmuch as the king does not bring his banished one home again.

1 Kings 20:39

And as the king passed, he cried to the king and said, “Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and behold, a soldier turned and brought a man to me, and said, ‘Keep this man; if by any means he be missing, your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.’

1 Kings 20:41

Then he made haste to take the bandage away from his eyes; and the king of Israel recognized him as one of the prophets.

Job 15:6

Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you.

Jeremiah 48:10

“Cursed is he who does the work of the Lord with slackness; and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from bloodshed.

Luke 19:22

He said to him, ‘I will condemn you out of your own mouth, you wicked servant! You knew that I was a severe man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow?