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


In Context

37 Then he found another man, and said, |Please strike me.| The man struck him, smiting and wounding him.

38 So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with his headband over his eyes.

39 As the king passed by, he cried to the king; and he said, |Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man to me, and said, 'Guard this man! If by any means he be missing, then your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.'

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

41 He hurried, and took the headband away from his eyes; and the king of Israel recognized that he was of the prophets.

42 He said to him, |Thus says Yahweh, 'Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people.'|

1 Kings 20:40 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

20:40While your servant was busy here and there, the man disappeared." "That is your sentence," the king of Israel said. "You have pronounced it yourself."

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:40And 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. ]

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:40And 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:40And 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:40And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And the king of Israel said to him, So is thy judgment: thyself hast decided it.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:40And 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:40And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And the king of Israel said to him, So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast decided it.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:40and it cometh to pass, thy servant is working hither and thither, and he is not!' and the king of Israel saith unto him, Right is thy judgment; thou hast determined it.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:40And as your servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And the king of Israel said to him, So shall your judgment be; yourself have decided it.