1 Kings 20
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1 Kings 20:16-21

16So they went out at noon. Meanwhile Ben-Hadad and the thirty-two kings helping him were getting drunk at the command post.

17The young leaders of the provinces went out first. And Ben-Hadad sent out a patrol, and they told him, saying, “Men are coming out of Samaria!”

18So he said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive; and if they have come out for war, take them alive.”

19Then these young leaders of the provinces went out of the city with the army which followed them.

20And each one killed his man; so the Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them; and Ben-Hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with the cavalry.

21Then the king of Israel went out and attacked the horses and chariots, and killed the Syrians with a great slaughter.

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