I Kings 20

1And Benadad, king of Syria, gathered together all his host, and there were two and thirty kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and going up, he fought against Samaria, and besieged it.

5And the messengers came again, and said: Thus saith Benadad, who sent us unto thee: Thy silver and thy gold, and thy wives and thy children, thou shalt deliver up to me.

6To morrow, therefore, at this same hour, I will send my servants to thee, and they shall search thy house, and the houses of thy servants: and all that pleaseth them, they shall put in their hands, and take away.

Isaiah 44:9, 1 Samuel 13:19, 1 Samuel 13:21, Jeremiah 25:34, 2 Samuel 24:14

7And the king of Israel called all the ancients of the land, and said: Mark, and see that he layeth snares for us. For he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver and gold: and I said not nay.

2 Kings 5:7, 2 Kings 5:7, Proverbs 24:2, Romans 3:13, Romans 3:18

8And all the ancients, and all the people said to him: Hearken not to him, nor consent to him.

9Wherefore he answered the messengers of Benadad: Tell my lord, the king: All that thou didst send for to me, thy servant at first, I will do: but this thing I cannot do.

10And the messengers returning brought him word. And he sent again, and said: Such and such things may the gods do to me, and more may they add, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.

1 Kings 19:2, 1 Kings 19:2, Exodus 11:8, Exodus 11:8, Isaiah 37:24

11And the king of Israel answering, said: Tell him: Let not the girded boast himself as the ungirded.

Proverbs 27:1, Proverbs 27:1, Ecclesiastes 9:11, 1 Samuel 17:44, 1 Samuel 17:47

12And it came to pass, when Benadad heard this word, that he and the kings were drinking in pavilions, and he said to his servants: Beset the city. And they beset it.

1 Kings 16:9, 1 Kings 16:9, Proverbs 31:4, Proverbs 31:5, 1 Kings 20:16

13And behold a prophet coming to Achab, king of Israel, said to him: Thus saith the Lord: Hast thou seen all this exceeding great multitude? behold I will deliver them into thy hand this day: that thou mayst know that I am the Lord.

1 Kings 20:28, 1 Kings 20:28, Ezekiel 20:22, Ezekiel 20:22, Isaiah 37:20

14And Achab said: By whom? And he said to him: Thus saith the Lord: By the servants of the princes of the provinces. And he said: Who shall begin to fight? And he said: Thou.

1 Kings 18:44, 1 Samuel 17:50, Genesis 14:14, Genesis 14:16, Judges 7:16

15So he mustered the servants of the princes of the provinces, and he found the number of two hundred and thirty-two: and he mustered after them the people, all the children of Israel, seven thousand:

2 Chronicles 14:11, 1 Samuel 14:2, Judges 7:16, 1 Samuel 14:6, Judges 7:7

16And they went out at noon. But Benadad was drinking himself drunk in his pavilion, and the two and thirty kings with him, who were come to help him.

Hosea 4:11, 1 Kings 16:7, 1 Kings 16:9, 1 Kings 20:11, 1 Kings 20:12

17And the servants of the princes of the provinces went out first. And Benadad sent. And they told him, saying: There are men come out of Samaria.

1 Kings 20:14, 1 Kings 20:15, 1 Kings 20:19, 1 Kings 20:14, 1 Kings 20:15

18And he said: Whether they come for peace, take them alive: or whether they come to fight, take them alive.

2 Kings 14:8, 2 Kings 14:12, 2 Kings 14:8, 2 Kings 14:12, 1 Samuel 17:44

19So the servants of the princes of the provinces went out, and the rest of the army followed:

20And every one slew the man that came against him: and the Syrians fled, and Israel pursued after them. And Benadad, king of Syria, fled away on horseback with his horsemen.

Judges 7:20, Judges 7:22, 1 Samuel 30:16, 1 Samuel 30:17, Psalms 46:6

21But the king of Israel going out overthrew the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.

Judges 7:23, Judges 7:25, 2 Kings 3:18, 1 Samuel 17:52, Judges 3:28

22(And a prophet coming to the king of Israel, said to him: Go, and strengthen thyself, and know, and see what thou dost: for the next year the king of Syria will come up against thee.)

1 Kings 20:26, 2 Samuel 11:1, 1 Kings 20:26, 2 Samuel 11:1, 1 Kings 20:13

23But the servants of the king of Syria said to him: Their gods are gods of the hills, therefore they have overcome us: but it is better that we should fight against them in the plains, and we shall overcome them.

1 Kings 14:23, 1 Kings 14:23, 2 Kings 19:12, 1 Kings 20:28, Psalms 50:21

24Do thou, therefore, this thing: Remove all the kings from thy army, and put captains in their stead:

1 Kings 22:31, Proverbs 21:30, 1 Kings 22:31, Proverbs 21:30, 1 Kings 20:1

25And make up the number of soldiers that have been slain of thine, and horses, according to the former horses, and chariots, according to the chariots which thou hadst before: and we will fight against them in the plains, and thou shalt see that we shall overcome them. He believed their counsel, and did so.

Psalms 10:3, Psalms 10:3

26Wherefore, at the return of the year, Benadad mustered the Syrians, and went up to Aphec, to fight against Israel.

2 Kings 13:17, 2 Kings 13:17, 1 Kings 20:22, 1 Kings 20:22, 1 Kings 20:30

27And the children of Israel were mustered, and taking victuals, went out on the other side, and encamped over against them, like two little flocks of goats: but the Syrians filled the land.

Judges 6:5, 1 Samuel 13:5, 1 Samuel 13:8, Judges 6:5, 1 Samuel 13:5

28(And a man of God coming, said to the king of Israel: Thus saith the Lord: Because the Syrians have said: The Lord is God of the hills, but is not God of the valleys: I will deliver all this great multitude into thy hand, and you shall know that I am the Lord.)

1 Kings 20:13, 1 Kings 20:13, 1 Kings 17:18, 1 Kings 17:18, Ezekiel 36:21

29And both sides set their armies in array one against the other seven days, and on the seventh day the battle was fought: and the children of Israel slew, of the Syrians, a hundred thousand footmen in one day.

Psalms 10:16, Isaiah 37:36, Joshua 6:15, 1 Samuel 17:16, 2 Chronicles 13:17

30And they that remained fled to Aphec, into the city: and the wall fell upon seven and twenty thousand men, that were left. And Benadad fleeing, went into the city, into a chamber that was within a chamber.

2 Chronicles 18:24, 1 Kings 22:25, 2 Chronicles 18:24, 1 Kings 22:25, 1 Kings 20:26

31And his servants said to him: Behold, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful; so let us put sackcloths on our loins, and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: perhaps he will save our lives.

Genesis 37:34, 2 Samuel 3:31, Genesis 37:34, 2 Samuel 3:31, 1 Kings 20:23

32So they girded sackcloths on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said to him: Thy servant, Benadad, saith: I beseech thee let me have my life. And he said: If he be yet alive, he is my brother.

1 Kings 20:3, 1 Kings 20:6, 1 Kings 20:3, 1 Kings 20:6, Obadiah 1:3

33The men took this for good luck: and in haste caught the word out of his mouth, and said: Thy brother Benadad. And he said to them: Go, and bring him to me. Then Benadad came out to him, and he lifted him up into his chariot.

Luke 16:8, Proverbs 25:13, Acts 8:31, 2 Kings 10:15, Luke 16:8

34And he said to him: The cities which my father took from thy father, I will restore: and do thou make thee streets in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria and having made a league, I will depart from thee. So he made a league with him, and let him go.

1 Kings 15:20, 1 Kings 15:20, Isaiah 26:10, 1 Kings 20:42, Isaiah 26:10

35Then a certain man of the sons of the prophets, said to his companion, in the word of the Lord: Strike me. But he would not strike.

2 Kings 2:15, 1 Kings 13:17, 1 Kings 13:18, 2 Kings 2:15, 1 Kings 13:17

36Then he said to him: Because thou wouldst not hearken to the word of the Lord, behold thou shalt depart from me, and a lion shall slay thee. And when he was gone a little from him, a lion found him, and slew him.

1 Kings 13:21, 1 Kings 13:24, 1 Kings 13:26, 1 Samuel 15:22, 1 Samuel 15:23

37Then he found another man, and said to him: Strike me. And he struck him and wounded him.

1 Kings 20:35, Exodus 21:12, 1 Kings 20:35, Exodus 21:12

38So the prophet went, and met the king in the way, and disguised himself by sprinkling dust on his face and his eyes.

1 Kings 14:2, 1 Kings 14:2, 2 Samuel 14:2, Matthew 6:16, 1 Kings 22:30

39And as the king passed by, he cried to the king, and said: Thy servant went out to fight hand to hand: and when a certain man was run away, one brought him to me, and said: Keep this man: and if he shall slip away, thy life shall be for his life, or thou shalt pay a talent of silver.

2 Kings 10:24, 2 Kings 10:24, Proverbs 13:8, Proverbs 6:35, 1 Kings 20:42

40And whilst I, in the hurry, turned this way and that, on a sudden he was not to be seen. And the king of Israel said to him: This is thy judgment, which thyself hast decreed.

Job 15:6, Matthew 25:24, Matthew 25:27, Luke 19:22, 2 Samuel 12:5

41But he forthwith wiped off the dust from his face, and the king of Israel knew him, that he was one of the prophets.

1 Kings 20:38, Job 2:8, 2 Samuel 13:19, Jeremiah 6:26, 1 Kings 20:38

42And he said to him: Thus saith the Lord. Because thou hast let go out of thy hand a man worthy of death, thy life shall be for his life, and thy people for his people.

1 Kings 22:31, 1 Kings 22:37, 1 Kings 22:31, 1 Kings 22:37, 2 Chronicles 18:33

43And the king of Israel returned to his house, slighting to hear, and raging came into Samaria.

1 Kings 21:4, 1 Kings 21:4, Esther 5:13, Esther 6:12, Esther 6:13

I Kings Chapter 20