1 Kings 20
NLT
Commentaries

Show in the text

Up to 5 commentaries at a time. Each excerpt opens in full.

New Living Translation

1 Kings 20:32-34

32So they put on burlap and ropes, and they went to the king of Israel and begged, “Your servant Ben-hadad says, ‘Please let me live!’” The king of Israel responded, “Is he still alive? He is my brother!”

33The men took this as a good sign and quickly picked up on his words. “Yes,” they said, “your brother Ben-hadad!” “Go and get him,” the king of Israel told them. And when Ben-hadad arrived, Ahab invited him up into his chariot.

34Ben-hadad told him, “I will give back the towns my father took from your father, and you may establish places of trade in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.” Then Ahab said, “I will release you under these conditions.” So they made a new treaty, and Ben-hadad was set free.

Read all of 1 Kings 20

Commentaries on 1 Kings 20

New Living Translation — © 1996, 2004, 2015 Tyndale House Foundation