And Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and warred against it. 1Ki 15:181Ki 15:201Ki 22:311Ki 16:241Ki 20:161Ki 20:241Sa 13:52Ch 16:2-4 And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and said unto him, Thus saith Ben-hadad, 2Ki 19:9Isa 36:2-22Isa 37:9-10 Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine. Exo 15:9Isa 10:13-14 And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king, according to thy saying, I am thine, and all that I have. 1Sa 13:6-72Ki 18:14-16Deu 28:48Jdg 15:11-13Lev 26:36 And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh Ben-hadad, saying, Although I have sent unto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children; Yet I will send my servants unto thee to morrow about this time, and they shall search thine house, and the houses of thy servants; and it shall be, that whatsoever is pleasant in thine eyes, they shall put it in their hand, and take it away. 1 1Sa 13:19-212Ki 18:31-322Sa 24:14Ezr 8:27Gen 27:15Hos 13:15Isa 44:9Jer 25:34 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh mischief: for he sent unto me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not. 2 2Ki 5:71Ch 13:11Ch 28:11Ki 8:1Dan 11:27Job 15:35Pro 11:14Pro 11:27 And all the elders and all the people said unto him, Hearken not unto him, nor consent. Wherefore he said unto the messengers of Ben-hadad, Tell my lord the king, All that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first I will do: but this thing I may not do. And the messengers departed, and brought him word again. And Ben-hadad sent unto him, and said, The gods do so unto me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me. 3 1Ki 19:2Exo 11:82Ki 19:23-242Sa 17:12-13Act 23:12Isa 10:13-14Isa 37:24-25Jdg 4:10 And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off. Pro 27:11Sa 17:44-47Ecc 9:11Isa 10:15-161Sa 14:12-131Sa 14:6Mat 26:33-35Mat 26:75
And it came to pass, when Ben-hadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, that he said unto his servants, Set yourselves in array. And they set themselves in array against the city. 4 6 5 1Ki 16:91Ki 20:16Pro 31:4-51Sa 25:362Sa 13:28Dan 5:2Dan 5:30Eph 5:18
¶ And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king of Israel, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into thine hand this day; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD. 7 1Ki 20:28Ezk 20:222Ki 7:1Exo 14:18Exo 16:12Ezk 20:14Isa 37:20Isa 7:1-9 And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Even by the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall order the battle? And he answered, Thou. 8 9 1Co 1:27-291Ki 18:441Sa 17:50Gen 14:14-16Jdg 7:16-20 Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand. 1Ki 19:181Sa 14:21Sa 14:62Ch 14:112Ki 13:7Jdg 7:16Jdg 7:7Psa 106:40-43 And they went out at noon. But Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him. 1Ki 16:71Ki 16:91Ki 20:11-12Ecc 10:16-17Hos 4:11Isa 54:15Pro 23:29-32 And the young men 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. 1Ki 20:14-151Ki 20:19 And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive. 2Ki 14:8-121Sa 14:11-121Sa 17:441Sa 2:3-4Pro 18:12 So these young men of the princes of the provinces came out of the city, and the army which followed them. And they slew every one his man: and the Syrians fled; and Israel pursued them: and Ben-hadad the king of Syria escaped on an horse with the horsemen. 1Sa 14:13-151Sa 30:16-172Ki 19:362Ki 7:6-72Sa 2:16Ecc 9:11Jdg 7:20-22Lev 26:8 And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter. 1Sa 14:20-221Sa 17:522Ki 3:182Ki 3:24Jdg 3:28Jdg 7:23-25
¶ And the prophet came to the king of Israel, and said unto him, Go, strengthen thyself, and mark, and see what thou doest: for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against thee. 2Sa 11:11Ki 20:131Ki 20:261Ch 20:11Ki 19:101Ki 20:381Ki 22:82Ch 25:11 And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their gods are gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. 1Ki 14:231Sa 4:81Ki 20:282Ch 32:13-192Ki 19:12Isa 42:8Psa 50:21-22Rom 1:21-23 And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their rooms: 1Ki 22:31Pro 21:301Ki 20:11Ki 20:16 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 in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. And he hearkened unto their voice, and did so. 10 Psa 10:3 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. 11 2Ki 13:171Ki 20:221Ki 20:301Sa 29:11Sa 4:1Jdg 1:31Jos 13:4Jos 19:30 And the children of Israel were numbered, and were all present, and went against them: and the children of Israel pitched before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country. 12 1Sa 13:5-8Jdg 6:51Sa 14:22Ch 32:7-8Deu 32:30Ecc 9:11Jdg 7:8Jos 1:11
¶ And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the Syrians have said, The LORD is God of the hills, but he is not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 1Ki 20:131Ki 17:18Ezk 12:16Ezk 36:21-23Psa 79:101Ki 13:11Ki 20:22-232Ch 20:14-20 And they pitched one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day. 1Sa 17:162Ch 13:172Ch 20:23-252Ch 28:62Sa 10:18Isa 37:36Jos 6:15Psa 10:16 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber. 13 1Ki 22:252Ch 18:241Ki 20:26Luk 13:41Ki 20:101Ki 20:20Amo 2:14-15Amo 5:19
¶ And his servants said unto 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: peradventure he will save thy life. 2Sa 3:31Gen 37:341Ki 20:231Ki 21:27-292Ki 19:1-22Ki 5:132Ki 7:42Sa 14:2 So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Ben-hadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother. 1Ki 20:3-61Ki 20:311Ki 20:421Sa 15:8-20Dan 5:20-23Isa 10:12Isa 2:11-12Job 12:17-18 Now the men did diligently observe whether any thing would come from him, and did hastily catch it: and they said, Thy brother Ben-hadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then Ben-hadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot. 2Ki 10:15Act 8:31Luk 16:8Pro 25:13 And Ben-hadad said unto him, The cities, which my father took from thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then said Ahab, I will send thee away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away. 14 1Ki 15:201Ki 20:42Isa 26:101Ki 22:312Ch 16:42Ch 18:30Isa 8:12
¶ And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his neighbour in the word of the LORD, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man refused to smite him. 1Ki 13:17-182Ki 2:152Ki 4:11Ki 13:1-21Ki 20:37-381Sa 10:122Ki 2:3-72Ki 4:38 Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him. 1Ki 13:21-241Ki 13:261Sa 15:22-23 Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man smote him, so that in smiting he wounded him. 15 1Ki 20:35Exo 21:12 So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with ashes upon his face. 1Ki 14:21Ki 22:302Sa 14:2Mat 6:16 And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he said, Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver. 16 2Ki 10:241Ki 20:421Pe 1:18-192Sa 12:1-72Sa 14:5-7Exo 21:30Jdg 9:7-20Job 36:18 And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And the king of Israel said unto him, So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast decided it. 17 2Sa 12:5-7Job 15:6Luk 19:22Mat 25:24-27Mat 21:41-43 And he hasted, and took the ashes away from his face; and the king of Israel discerned him that he was of the prophets. 1Ki 20:382Sa 13:19Jer 6:26Job 2:8 And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Because thou hast let go out of thy hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people. 1Ki 22:31-372Ch 18:33-341Ki 20:391Ki 20:341Sa 15:9-112Ki 6:242Ki 8:12 And the king of Israel went to his house heavy and displeased, and came to Samaria. 1Ki 21:41Ki 22:8Est 5:13Est 6:12-13Job 5:2Pro 19:3