1 Kings 20:8
6 Yet I will send my servants unto thee to morrow about this time, and they shall search thine house, and the houses of thy servants; and it shall be, that whatsoever is pleasant in thine eyes, they shall put it in their hand, and take it away.
7 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh mischief: for he sent unto me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not.
And all the elders and all the people said unto him, Hearken not unto him, nor consent.
9 Wherefore he said unto the messengers of Ben-hadad, Tell my lord the king, All that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first I will do: but this thing I may not do. And the messengers departed, and brought him word again.
10 And Ben-hadad sent unto him, and said, The gods do so unto me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.
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Sammenlign
- ÅB
- Da sa alle de eldste og alt folket til ham: Du må ikke høre på ham og ikke gi etter.
- OTB
- Alle de eldste og folket sa til ham: "Ikke hør på ham eller gi etter."
- B1930
- Da sa alle de eldste og alt folket til ham: Du må ikke høre på ham og ikke gi efter.
- BSB
- And the elders and the people all said, “Do not listen to him or consent to his terms.”
- KJV
- And all the elders and all the people said unto him, Hearken not unto him, nor consent.
- WEB
- All the elders and all the people said to him, “Don’t listen, and don’t consent.”
- ASV
- And all the elders and all the people said unto him, Hearken thou not, neither consent.
- DARBY
- And all the elders and all the people said to him, Hearken not, nor consent.
- BLB
- And all the elders and all the people said to him, “Do not listen and do not consent.”