1 Kings 20:40

English Standard Version 2016

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.”

Cross References

Luke 19:22

He said to him, ‘I will condemn you with your own words, you wicked servant! You knew that I was a severe man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?

Job 15:6

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

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, ‘Guard this man; if by any means he is missing, your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.’

1 Kings 20:41

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

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.

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.