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Title: Old Testament, The
Book: First Book Of The Kings
Author: Various
Date: 1885
Chapter 20
And Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together; and there
were thirty and two kings with him, and horses and chariots: and he went up
and besieged Samaria, and fought against it. And he sent messengers to Ahab
king of Israel, into the city, and said unto him, Thus saith Ben- hadad, Thy
silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the
goodliest, are mine. And the king of Israel answered and said, It is
according to thy saying, my lord, O king; I am thine, and all that I have. And
the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh Ben-hadad, saying, I sent
indeed unto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and
thy wives, and thy children; but I will send my servants unto thee to-morrow
about this time, and they shall search thy house, and the houses of thy
servants; and it shall be, that ^4 whatsoever is pleasant in thine eyes, they
shall put it in their hand, and take it away.
[Footnote 4: Heb. all the desire of thine eyes.]
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
thou not, neither consent. 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. 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 ^5 follow me. And the king of Israel
answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that girdeth on his armor boast
himself as he that putteth it off. And it came to pass, when Ben-hadad heard
this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings, in the ^1 pavilions, that
he said unto his servants, ^2 Set yourselves in array. And they set
themselves in array against the city.
[Footnote 5: Heb. are at my feet.]
[Footnote 1: Or, huts]
[Footnote 2: Or, Place the engines. And they placed the engines]
And, behold, a prophet came near unto Ahab king of Israel, and said, Thus
saith Jehovah, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I will
deliver it into thy hand this day; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah. And
Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith Jehovah, By the ^3 young men of
the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall ^4 begin the battle?
And he answered, Thou. Then he mustered the young men of the princes of the
provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty-two: and after them he
mustered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven
thousand.
[Footnote 3: Or, servants]
[Footnote 4: Heb. bind.]
And they went out at noon. But Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in
the ^1 pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.
And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben-
hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men come out from
Samaria. And he said, Whether they are come out for peace, take them alive;
or whether they are come out for war, take them alive. So these went out of
the city, the young men of the princes of the provinces, and the army which
followed them. And they slew every one his man; and the Syrians fled, and
Israel pursued them: and Ben-hadad the king of Syria escaped ^5 on a horse
with horsemen. And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and
chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.
[Footnote 1: Or, huts]
[Footnote 5: Or, with horse and horsemen]
And the prophet came near to the king of Israel, and said unto him, Go,
strengthen thyself, and mark, and see what thou doest; for at the return of
the year the king of Syria will come up against thee. And the servants of the
king of Syria said unto him, Their god is a god of the hills; therefore they
were stronger than we: but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely
we shall be stronger than they. And do this thing: take the kings away, every
man out of his place, and put ^6 captains in their room; and number thee an
army, like the army that thou hast lost, horse for horse, and chariot for
chariot; and we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be
stronger than they. And he hearkened unto their voice, and did so.
[Footnote 6: Or, governors See ch. 10. 15.]
And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Ben-hadad mustered
the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel: And the children
of Israel were mustered, and were victualled, and went against them: and the
children of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of kids; but
the Syrians filled the country. And ^7 a man of God came near and spake unto
the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith Jehovah, Because the Syrians have
said, Jehovah is a god of the hills, but he is not a god of the valleys;
therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thy hand, and ye shall
know that I am Jehovah. And they encamped one over against the other seven
days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined; and the
children of Israel slew of the Syrians a hundred thousand footmen in one day.
But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell upon twenty and
seven thousand men that were left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the
city, ^8 into an inner chamber.
[Footnote 7: Or, the]
[Footnote 8: Or, from chamber to chamber]
And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings
of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, we pray thee, put
sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of
Israel: peradventure he will save thy life. So they girded sackcloth on
their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel,
and said, Thy servant Ben-hadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he
said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother. Now the men ^9 observed
diligently, and hasted ^10 to catch whether it were ^1 his mind; and they
said; Thy brother Ben-hadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then Ben-hadad
came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot. And Ben-
hadad said unto him, The cities which my father took from thy father I will
restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus, as my father made
in Samaria. And I, said Ahab, will let thee go with this covenant. So he
made a covenant with him, and let him go.
[Footnote 9: Or, took it as an omen (Heb. divined), and hasted]
[Footnote 10: Another reading is, to catch it from him.]
[Footnote 1: Heb. from him.]
And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his fellow by
the word of Jehovah, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man refused to smite
him. Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of
Jehovah, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay
thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew
him. Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray thee. And the
man smote him, smiting and wounding him. So the prophet departed, and waited
for the king by the way, and disguised himself with his headband over his
eyes. And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king; and he said, Thy
servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned
aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he
be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a
talent of silver. And 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. And he hasted, and took the headband away from his eyes; and the
king of Israel discerned him that he was of the prophets. And he said unto
him, Thus saith Jehovah, Because thou hast let go out of thy hand the man
whom I hae devoted to destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life,
and thy people for his people. And the king of Israel went to his house
heavy and displeased, and came to Samaria.