יָקַר

Every time the Philistine commanders came out for battle, David was more successful than all of Saul’s officers, so that his name was highly esteemed.

Then Saul replied, “I have sinned. Come back, David my son. I will never harm you again, because today you considered my life precious. I have played the fool and have committed a grave error!”

So the king sent a third captain with his fifty men. And the third captain went up, fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, “Man of God, may my life and the lives of these fifty servants of yours please be precious in your sight.

Behold, fire has come down from heaven and consumed the first two captains of fifty, with all their men. But now may my life be precious in your sight.”

For the redemption of his soul is costly, and never can payment suffice,

He will redeem them from oppression and violence, for their blood is precious in his sight.

How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God, how vast is their sum!

Seldom set foot in your neighbor’s house, lest he grow weary and hate you.

I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.

Because you are precious and honored in My sight, and because I love you, I will give men in exchange for you and nations in place of your life.

And the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—this magnificent price at which they valued me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the LORD.