1 Kings 20
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1 Kings 20:16-21

16They went out at noon, while 1Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the 2temporary shelters 3with the thirty-two kings who were helping him. 17The young men of the leaders of the provinces went out first; and Ben-hadad sent out scouts, and they reported to him, saying, “Men have come out from Samaria.” 184Then he said, “If they have come out 5for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive as well.”

19So these men went out from the city, the young men of the leaders of the provinces, and the army which followed them. 20And they 6killed, each one, his man; and the Arameans fled and Israel pursued them, and Ben-hadad the king of Aram escaped on a horse with horsemen. 21The king of Israel also went out and struck the horses and chariots, and 7killed the Arameans in a great slaughter.

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Notes

  1. 1. 1 Kings 20:16 1 Kin 16:9; 20:12; Prov 20:1 ↩
  2. 2. 1 Kings 20:16 Or huts ↩
  3. 3. 1 Kings 20:16 Lit he and the 32 kings ↩
  4. 4. 1 Kings 20:18 2 Kin 14:8-12 ↩
  5. 5. 1 Kings 20:18 I.e., to seek terms for surrender ↩
  6. 6. 1 Kings 20:20 Lit struck ↩
  7. 7. 1 Kings 20:21 Lit struck ↩

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