◄ 1 Kings 11:22 ►
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Good News Translation
"Why?" the king asked. "Have I failed to give you something? Is that why you want to go back home?" "Just let me go," Hadad answered the king. And he went back to his country. As king of Edom, Hadad was an evil, bitter enemy of Israel.

New Revised Standard Version
But Pharaoh said to him, “What do you lack with me that you now seek to go to your own country?” And he said, “No, do let me go.”

Contemporary English Version
"Why?" asked the king. "Do you want something I haven't given you?" "No, I just want to go home."

New American Bible
Pharaoh said to him, “What do you lack with me, that you are seeking to return to your own land?” He answered, “Nothing, but please let me go!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Pharao said to him: Why, what is wanting to thee with me, that thou seekest to go to thy own country? But he answered: Nothing; yet I beseech thee to let me go.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Pharao said to him: Why, what is wanting to thee with me, that thou seekest to go to thy own country? But he answered: Nothing; yet I beseech thee to let me go.

But

Jeremiah 2:31 See ye the word of the Lord: Am I become a wilderness to Israel, or a lateward springing land? why then have my people said: We are revolted, we will come to thee no more?

Luke 22:35 When I sent you without purse and scrip and shoes, did you want anything?

Nothing [heb] Not

2 Samuel 18:22,23 Then Achimaas the son of Sadoc said to Joab again: Why might not I also run after Chusai? And Joab said to him: Why wilt thou run, my son? thou wilt not be the bearer of good tidings. . . .

Psalm 37:8 Cease from anger, and leave rage; have no emulation to do evil.

Mark 14:31 But he spoke the more vehemently: Although I should die together with thee, I will not deny thee. And in like manner also said they all.

Context
Hadad's Return
…21And when Adad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab, the general of the army, was dead, he said to Pharao: Let me depart, that I may go to my own country. 22And Pharao said to him: Why, what is wanting to thee with me, that thou seekest to go to thy own country? But he answered: Nothing; yet I beseech thee to let me go.
Cross References
1 Kings 11:21
And when Adad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab, the general of the army, was dead, he said to Pharao: Let me depart, that I may go to my own country.

1 Kings 11:23
God also raised up against him an adversary, Razon, the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master, Adarezer, the king of Soba.

1 Kings 11:21
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