And Benhadad 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 warred against it.
A.M.
1 Kings 15:18,20 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures …
2 Kings 8:7-10 And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick; …
2 Chronicles 16:2-4 Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the …
Jeremiah 49:27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume …
Amos 1:4 But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour …
Thirty and two
1 Kings 20:16,24 And they went out at noon. But Benhadad was drinking himself drunk …
Genesis 14:1-5 And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch …
Judges 1:7 And Adonibezek said, Three score and ten kings, having their thumbs …
Ezra 7:12 Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law …
Isaiah 10:8 For he said, Are not my princes altogether kings?
Ezekiel 26:7 For thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring on Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar …
Daniel 2:37 You, O king, are a king of kings: for the God of heaven has given …
and horses
Exodus 14:7 And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of …
Deuteronomy 20:1 When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses, and …
Judges 4:3 And the children of Israel cried to the LORD: for he had nine hundred …
1 Samuel 13:5 And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, …
Isaiah 37:24 By your servants have you reproached the Lord, and have said, By …
besieged
Leviticus 26:25 And I will bring a sword on you, that shall avenge the quarrel of …
Deuteronomy 28:52 And he shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fenced …
2 Kings 6:24-29 And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered …
2 Kings 17:5,6 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went …
And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and said unto him, Thus saith Benhadad,
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, My lord, O king, according to thy saying, I am thine, and all that I have.
And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh Benhadad, saying, Although I have sent unto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children;
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.
and they shall search
1 Samuel 13:19-21 Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for …
2 Samuel 24:14 And David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into …
2 Kings 18:31,32 Listen not to Hezekiah: for thus said the king of Assyria, Make an …
pleasant [heb] desirable
Genesis 27:15 And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her oldest son Esau, which were …
Ezra 8:27 Also twenty basins of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels …
Isaiah 44:9 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable …
Jeremiah 25:34 Howl, you shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, …
Lamentations 1:7,10 Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries …
Hosea 13:15 Though he be fruitful among his brothers, an east wind shall come, …
Joel 3:5 Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into …
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.
all the elders
1 Kings 8:1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of …
2 Kings 5:7 And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, …
1 Chronicles 13:1 And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, …
1 Chronicles 28:1 And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes…
Proverbs 11:14 Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors …
2 Kings 5:7 And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, …
seeketh mischief
Job 15:35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepares deceit.
Psalm 7:14 Behold, he travails with iniquity, and has conceived mischief, and …
Psalm 36:4 He devises mischief on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is …
Psalm 62:3 How long will you imagine mischief against a man? you shall be slain …
Psalm 140:2 Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered …
Proverbs 6:14 Frowardness is in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord.
Proverbs 11:27 He that diligently seeks good procures favor: but he that seeks mischief, …
Proverbs 24:2 For their heart studies destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
Daniel 11:27 And both of these kings' hearts shall be to do mischief, and they …
Romans 3:13-18 Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used …
denied him not [heb] kept not back from him
1 Kings 20:4 And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king, according …
And all the elders and all the people said unto him, Hearken not unto him, nor consent.
The gods
1 Kings 19:2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let the gods …
Acts 23:12 And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound …
if the dust
2 Samuel 17:12,13 So shall we come on him in some place where he shall be found, and …
2 Kings 19:23,24 By your messengers you have reproached the LORD, and have said…
Isaiah 10:13,14 For he said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my …
Isaiah 37:24,25 By your servants have you reproached the Lord, and have said, By …
follow me [heb] are at my feet
Exodus 11:8 And all these your servants shall come down to me, and bow down themselves …
Judges 4:10 And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with …
Wherefore he said unto the messengers of Benhadad, 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.
Let not him, etc. This was no doubt a proverbial mode of expression. Jonathan renders it: `Let not him who girds himself, and goes down to battle, boast as one who has conquered and returned from it.'
1 Samuel 14:6,12,13 And Jonathan said to the young man that bore his armor, Come, and …
1 Samuel 17:44-47 And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give your …
Proverbs 27:1 Boast not yourself of to morrow; for you know not what a day may bring forth.
Ecclesiastes 9:11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, …
Isaiah 10:15,16 Shall the ax boast itself against him that hews therewith? or shall …
Matthew 26:33-35 Peter answered and said to him, Though all men shall be offended …
Matthew 26:75 And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said to him, Before …
harness The word harness is an obsolete word for armour, derived from the French harnois
Exodus 13:18 But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of …
And Benhadad 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.
message [heb] word
drinking
1 Kings 20:16 And they went out at noon. But Benhadad was drinking himself drunk …
1 Kings 16:9 And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against …
1 Samuel 25:36 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, …
2 Samuel 13:28 Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark you now when …
Proverbs 31:4,5 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; …
Daniel 5:2,30 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine…
Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged …
Ephesians 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
pavilions. or, tents That persons of regal dignity regaled themselves in this manner we may learn from Dr. Chandler, who, when he went to visit the Aga of Suki, after his return from hawking, found him vexed and tired; and `a couch was prepared from him beneath a shed made against a cottage, and covered with green boughs to keep off the sun. He entered as we were standing by, and fell down on it to sleep, without taking any notice of us.'
Jeremiah 43:10 And say to them, Thus said the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; …
Set yourselves in array
And they set, etc. or, Place the engines
And they placed engines
And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
came [heb] approached
Hast thou
2 Kings 6:8-12 Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with …
2 Kings 7:1 Then Elisha said, Hear you the word of the LORD; Thus said the LORD…
2 Kings 13:23 And the LORD was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and …
Isaiah 7:1-9 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son …
Ezekiel 20:14,22 But I worked for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before …
and thou shalt
1 Kings 20:28 And there came a man of God, and spoke to the king of Israel, and …
1 Kings 18:37 Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that you are …
Exodus 14:18 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten …
Exodus 16:12 I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak to them, …
Psalm 83:18 That men may know that you, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, are the …
Isaiah 37:20 Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the …
Ezekiel 6:7 And the slain shall fall in the middle of you, and you shall know …
Joel 3:17 So shall you know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my …
And it came to pass, when Benhadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, that he said unto his servants, Set yourselves in array. And they set themselves in array against the city.
And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king of Israel, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into thine hand this day; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
two hundred
Judges 7:7,16 And the LORD said to Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped …
1 Samuel 14:6 And Jonathan said to the young man that bore his armor, Come, and …
2 Chronicles 14:11 And Asa cried to the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing …
seven thousand
1 Kings 19:18 Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which …
1 Samuel 14:2 And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate …
2 Kings 13:7 Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, …
Psalm 106:40-43 Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, so …
And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Even by the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall order the battle? And he answered, Thou.
Ben-hadad
1 Kings 20:11,12 And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that …
1 Kings 16:7 And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the …
Proverbs 23:29-32 Who has woe? who has sorrow? who has contentions? who has babbling? …
Ecclesiastes 10:16,17 Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat …
Hosea 4:11 Prostitution and wine and new wine take away the heart.
the thirty
Isaiah 54:15 Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whoever …
The Syrians, the besiegers, had their directions from a drunken king, who gave orders over his cups, while he was drinking at noon. Drunkenness is a sin which is most detestable in all, but more so in a king than in a private individual, inasmuch as the greater weight a man's situation carries, whether from accumulated riches, family connections, hereditary authority, or invested command, so is the influence which his vices must have on those around him. Perhaps it may be said, from past experience, that drunkenness, which is a most heinous sin in the sight of God, may be charged on those who indulge {only now and then} in that which may eventually lead them into drunkenness; for they shut their eyes against the most palpable facts, and rather than give up the paltry gratification of a debach, involve thousands by their example to positive harm. Ben-hadad's drunkenness was the forerunner of his fall. Belshazzar also, we read, drank wine with his princes, his wives, and his concubines, and praised the gods of gold, silver, brass, iron, wood, and stone: and in the {same hour} came forth the finger of a man's hand and wrote his doom on the plaster of the wall. Those who fancy themselves perfectly secure, and above the possibility of falling, are commonly nearest their destruction: there is always an Ahab read to take advantage of and improve the self-imposed imbecility.
Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.
And they went out at noon. But Benhadad was drinking himself drunk in the 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 Benhadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men come out of Samaria.
And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.
they slew
2 Samuel 2:16 And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and thrust his …
Ecclesiastes 9:11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, …
the Syrians
Leviticus 26:8 And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall …
Judges 7:20-22 And the three companies blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers, …
1 Samuel 14:13-15 And Jonathan climbed up on his hands and on his feet, and his armor …
2 Kings 7:6,7 For the LORD had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of …
Psalm 33:16 There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man …
Psalm 46:6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, …
escaped
1 Samuel 30:16,17 And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad …
2 Kings 19:36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and …
So these young men of the princes of the provinces came out of the city, and the army which followed them.
And they slew every one his man: and the Syrians fled; and Israel pursued them: and Benhadad the king of Syria escaped on an horse with the horsemen.
the prophet
1 Kings 20:13,38 And, behold, there came a prophet to Ahab king of Israel, saying, …
1 Kings 19:10 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: …
1 Kings 22:8 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, …
2 Kings 6:12 And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, …
strengthen
2 Chronicles 25:8,11 But if you will go, do it; be strong for the battle: God shall make …
Psalm 27:14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your …
Proverbs 18:10 The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runs into it, and is safe.
Proverbs 20:18 Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.
Isaiah 8:9 Associate yourselves, O you people, and you shall be broken in pieces; …
Joel 3:9,10 Proclaim you this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty …
Ephesians 6:10 Finally, my brothers, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
at the return
1 Kings 20:26 And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Benhadad numbered …
2 Samuel 11:1 And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when …
1 Chronicles 20:1 And it came to pass, that after the year was expired, at the time …
Psalm 115:2,3 Why should the heathen say, Where is now their God…
Isaiah 26:11 LORD, when your hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall …
Isaiah 42:8 I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, …
And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.
Their gods It was the general belief in the heathen world, that each district had its tutelary and protecting deity, who could do nothing out his own province.
1 Kings 20:28 And there came a man of God, and spoke to the king of Israel, and …
1 Kings 14:23 For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on …
1 Samuel 4:8 Woe to us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods?…
2 Kings 19:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have …
2 Chronicles 32:13-19 Know you not what I and my fathers have done to all the people of other lands…
Psalm 50:21,22 These things have you done, and I kept silence; you thought that …
Psalm 121:1,2 I will lift up my eyes to the hills, from where comes my help…
Isaiah 42:8 I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, …
And the prophet came 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 gods are gods 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 captains in their rooms:
Aphek Supposed to the Aphek near the river Adonis, between Heliopolis and Biblos, and probably the same place that Paul Luca mentions in his Voyage to the Levant. It was swallowed up by an earthquake, and formed a lake about nine miles in circumference, in which he says there were several houses still to be seen entire, under the water.
1 Kings 20:30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell …
Joshua 13:4 From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that is …
Joshua 19:30 Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their villages.
Judges 1:31 Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants …
Aphik
1 Samuel 4:1 And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against …
1 Samuel 29:1 Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: …
2 Kings 13:17 And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Then Elisha …
to fight against Israel [heb] to war with Israel
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.
were all present. or, were victualled.
Joshua 1:11 Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you …
Judges 7:8 So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and …
like two
Deuteronomy 32:30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, …
Judges 6:5 For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came …
1 Samuel 13:5-8 And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, …
1 Samuel 14:2 And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate …
2 Chronicles 32:7,8 Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king …
Ecclesiastes 9:11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, …
And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Benhadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.
there came
1 Kings 20:13,22 And, behold, there came a prophet to Ahab king of Israel, saying, …
1 Kings 13:1 And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of …
1 Kings 17:18 And she said to Elijah, What have I to do with you, O you man of …
2 Chronicles 20:14-20 Then on Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son …
Because
1 Kings 20:23 And the servants of the king of Syria said to him, Their gods are …
Isaiah 37:29-37 Because your rage against me, and your tumult, is come up into my …
therefore will
1 Kings 20:13 And, behold, there came a prophet to Ahab king of Israel, saying, …
Deuteronomy 32:27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries …
Joshua 7:8,9 O LORD, what shall I say, when Israel turns their backs before their enemies!…
Job 12:16-19 With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his…
Psalm 58:10,11 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance: he shall …
Psalm 79:10 Why should the heathen say, Where is their God?…
Isaiah 37:29,35 Because your rage against me, and your tumult, is come up into my …
Jeremiah 14:7 O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do you it for your …
Ezekiel 20:9,14 But I worked for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before …
Ezekiel 36:21-23,32 But I had pity for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned …
ye shall know
1 Kings 20:13 And, behold, there came a prophet to Ahab king of Israel, saying, …
Exodus 6:7 And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: …
Exodus 7:5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch forth …
Exodus 8:22 And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people …
Deuteronomy 29:6 You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink: …
Ezekiel 6:14 So will I stretch out my hand on them, and make the land desolate, …
Ezekiel 11:12 And you shall know that I am the LORD: for you have not walked in …
Ezekiel 12:16 But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, …
Ezekiel 36:22 Therefore say to the house of Israel, thus said the Lord GOD; I do …
Ezekiel 39:7 So will I make my holy name known in the middle of my people Israel; …
And the children of Israel were numbered, and were all present, and went against them: and the children of Israel pitched before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country.
And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the Syrians have said, The LORD is God of the hills, but he is not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
the rest
Psalm 18:25 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful; with an upright …
a wall
Isaiah 24:18 And it shall come to pass, that he who flees from the noise of the …
Jeremiah 48:44 He that flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that …
Amos 2:14,15 Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong …
Amos 5:19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into …
Amos 9:3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search …
Luke 13:4 Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them…
fled
1 Kings 20:10,20 And Benhadad sent to him, and said, The gods do so to me, and more also…
Daniel 4:37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, …
into an inner chamber. or, from chamber to chamber [heb] into a chamber within a chamber.
1 Kings 22:25 And Micaiah said, Behold, you shall see in that day, when you shall …
2 Chronicles 18:24 And Micaiah said, Behold, you shall see on that day when you shall …
And they pitched 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 an hundred thousand footmen in one day.
his servants
1 Kings 20:23 And the servants of the king of Syria said to him, Their gods are …
2 Kings 5:13 And his servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, My father, …
merciful kings
Proverbs 20:28 Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upheld by mercy.
Isaiah 16:5 And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit on …
Ephesians 1:7,8 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of …
let us, I pray thee Six of the citizens of Calais are reported to have acted nearly in the same manner, when they surrendered their city to Edward the Third, king of England, in
put sackcloth
1 Kings 21:27-29 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his …
Genesis 37:34 And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned …
2 Samuel 3:31 And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, …
2 Samuel 14:2 And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched there a wise woman, and said …
2 Kings 19:1,2 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his …
Esther 4:1-3 When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, …
Isaiah 22:12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to …
Isaiah 37:1 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his …
Jonah 3:5,6 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and …
Revelation 11:3 And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy …
peradventure
2 Kings 7:4 If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the …
Esther 4:16 Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and …
Job 2:4 And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yes, all that …
Matthew 10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul…
But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Benhadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
Thy servant
1 Kings 20:3-6 Your silver and your gold is mine; your wives also and your children, …
Job 12:17,18 He leads counsellors away spoiled, and makes the judges fools…
Job 40:11,12 Cast abroad the rage of your wrath: and behold every one that is …
Isaiah 2:11,12 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men …
Isaiah 10:12 Why it shall come to pass, that when the Lord has performed his whole …
Daniel 5:20-23 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, …
he is my brother
1 Kings 20:42 And he said to him, Thus said the LORD, Because you have let go out …
1 Samuel 15:8-20 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed …
And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I 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 Benhadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.
The cities
1 Kings 15:20 So Benhadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of the hosts …
2 Chronicles 16:4 And Benhadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies …
So he made a covenant One of the conditions of this covenant, we learn, was, that Ahab should have `streets (chutzoth) in Damascus;' a proposal better relished by Ahab then understood by the generality of commentators. This, however, is well illustrated by Mr. Harmer, from William of Tyre, the great historian of the Crusades; from whom it appears that it was customary to give those nations which were engaged in them, churches, streets, and great jurisdiction therein, in those places which they assisted to conquer. The Genoese and Venetians had each a street in Acon, or Acre, in which they had their own jurisdiction, with liberty to have an oven, mill, baths, weights, and measures,
1 Kings 20:42 And he said to him, Thus said the LORD, Because you have let go out …
1 Kings 22:31 But the king of Syria commanded his thirty and two captains that …
2 Chronicles 18:30 Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of the chariots …
Isaiah 8:12 Say you not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall …
Isaiah 26:10 Let favor be showed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: …
Now the men did diligently observe whether any thing would come from him, and did hastily catch it: and they said, Thy brother Benhadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then Benhadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.
of the sons
1 Kings 20:38 So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and …
1 Samuel 10:12 And one of the same place answered and said, But who is their father? …
2 Kings 2:3,5,7,15 And the sons of the prophets that were at Bethel came forth to Elisha, …
2 Kings 4:1,38 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets …
Amos 7:14 Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither …
in the word
1 Kings 13:1,2 And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of …
1 Kings 17:18 And she said to Elijah, What have I to do with you, O you man of …
Smite me
1 Kings 20:37 Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray you. And the …
Isaiah 8:18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for signs …
Isaiah 20:2,3 At the same time spoke the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, …
Jeremiah 27:2,3 Thus said the LORD to me; Make you bonds and yokes, and put them on your neck…
Ezekiel 4:3 Moreover take you to you an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron …
Matthew 16:24 Then said Jesus to his disciples, If any man will come after me, …
And Benhadad 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. Then said Ahab, I will send thee away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away.
And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his neighbour in the word of the LORD, 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 the LORD, 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.
disguised
1 Kings 14:2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray you, and disguise yourself, …
1 Kings 22:30 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, …
2 Samuel 14:2 And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched there a wise woman, and said …
Matthew 6:16 Moreover when you fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: …
Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man smote him, so that in smiting he wounded him.
Thy servant
Judges 9:7-20 And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of …
2 Samuel 12:1-7 And the LORD sent Nathan to David. And he came to him, and said to …
2 Samuel 14:5-7 And the king said to her, What ails you? And she answered, I am indeed …
Mark 12:1-12 And he began to speak to them by parables. A certain man planted …
thy life
1 Kings 20:42 And he said to him, Thus said the LORD, Because you have let go out …
2 Kings 10:24 And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings, Jehu …
or else
Exodus 21:30 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the …
Job 36:18 Because there is wrath, beware lest he take you away with his stroke: …
Psalm 49:7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God …
Proverbs 6:35 He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though …
Proverbs 13:8 The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor hears not rebuke.
1 Peter 1:18,19 For as much as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible …
pay [heb] weigh
So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with ashes upon his face.
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 ashes away from his face; and the king of Israel discerned him that he was of the prophets.
And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Because thou hast let go out of thy hand a man whom I appointed to utter 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.
