dby - 1Kings:20:13-34

dby@1Kings:20:13 @ And behold, a prophet drew near to 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.

dby@1Kings:20:14 @ And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith Jehovah: By the servants of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall begin the battle? And he said, Thou.

dby@1Kings:20:15 @ And he numbered the servants of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty-two; and after them he numbered all the people, all the children of Israel, seven thousand.

dby@1Kings:20:16 @ And they went out at noon; and Ben-Hadad drank himself drunk in the tents, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings that helped him.

dby@1Kings:20:17 @ And the servants of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben-Hadad sent out, and they told him saying, There are men come out of Samaria.

dby@1Kings:20:18 @ And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.

dby@1Kings:20:19 @ And these servants of the princes of the provinces came out of the city, and the army that followed them.

dby@1Kings:20:20 @ And they slew every one his man; and the Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them; and Ben-Hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with the horsemen.

dby@1Kings:20:21 @ And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.

dby@1Kings:20:22 @ And the prophet drew near to the king of Israel, and said to him, Go, strengthen thyself, and understand, and see what thou shalt do; for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against thee.

dby@1Kings:20:23 @ And the servants of the king of Syria said to him, Their gods are gods of the mountains; therefore they were stronger than we; but if we fight against them on the plateau, shall we not be stronger than they?

dby@1Kings:20:24 @ And do this: take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put governors in their stead;

dby@1Kings:20:25 @ 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 on the plateau: shall we not be stronger than they? And he hearkened to their voice, and did so.

dby@1Kings:20:26 @ And it came to pass, at the return of the year, that Ben-Hadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.

dby@1Kings:20:27 @ And the children of Israel were numbered and victualled, and they went against them; and the children of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of goats; but the Syrians filled the land.

dby@1Kings:20:28 @ And the man of God drew near, and spoke to the king of Israel and said, Thus saith Jehovah: Because the Syrians have said, Jehovah is a god of the mountains, but he is not a god of the valleys, I will give all this great multitude into thy hand, and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

dby@1Kings:20:29 @ And they encamped one over against the other seven days; and it came to pass that on the seventh day the battle was joined; and the children of Israel smote of the Syrians a hundred thousand footmen in one day.

dby@1Kings:20:30 @ And the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men of them that were left. And Ben-Hadad fled, and came into the city, [from] chamber to chamber.

dby@1Kings:20:31 @ And his servants said to 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; perhaps he will save thy life.

dby@1Kings:20:32 @ And they girded sackcloth on their loins, and ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Ben-Hadad says, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.

dby@1Kings:20:33 @ And the men took it as a good omen, and hastened to catch what came from him, and they said, Thy brother Ben-Hadad.... And he said, Go, bring him. And Ben-Hadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.

dby@1Kings:20:34 @ And [Ben-Hadad] said to him, The cities that my father took from thy father I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thyself in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. And I [said Ahab] will send thee away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away.