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Chapter 20
And
Benhadad
the
King
of
Syria
gathered
all
his
hoste
together,
and
there
were
thirtie
and
two
kings
with
him,
and
horses,
and
charets:
and
hee
went
vp
and
besieged
Samaria,
and
warred
against
it.
2
And
hee
sent
messengers
to
Ahab
king
of
Israel,
into
the
city,
and
saide
vnto
him,
Thus
saith
Benhadad,
3
Thy
siluer
and
thy
gold
is
mine,
thy
wiues
also,
and
thy
children,
euen
the
goodliest,
are
mine.
4
And
the
king
of
Israel
answered,
and
said,
My
lord
O
king,
according
to
thy
saying,
I
am
thine,
and
all
that
I
haue.
5
And
the
messengers
came
againe,
and
saide,
Thus
speaketh
Benhadad,
saying,
Although
I
haue
sent
vnto
thee,
saying,
Thou
shalt
deliuer
me
thy
siluer,
and
thy
gold,
and
thy
wiues,
and
thy
children:
6
Yet
I
will
send
my
seruants
vnto
thee
to
morrow
about
this
time,
and
they
shall
search
thine
house,
and
the
houses
of
thy
seruants;
and
it
shall
be,
that
whatsoeuer
is
pleasant
in
thine
eies,
they
shall
put
it
in
their
hand,
and
take
it
away.
7
Then
the
king
of
Israel
called
all
the
Elders
of
the
land,
and
saide;
Marke,
I
pray
you,
and
see
how
this
man
seeketh
mischiefe:
for
hee
sent
vnto
me
for
my
wiues,
and
for
my
children,
and
for
my
siluer,
and
for
my
gold,
and
I
denied
him
not.
8
And
all
the
Elders,
and
all
the
people
said
vnto
him;
Hearken
not
vnto
him,
nor
consent.
9
Wherefore
hee
said
vnto
the
messengers
of
Benhadad,
Tell
my
lord
the
king,
All
that
thou
diddest
send
for
to
thy
seruant
at
the
first,
I
will
doe:
but
this
thing
I
may
not
doe.
And
the
messengers
departed,
and
brought
him
word
againe.
10
And
Benhadad
sent
vnto
him,
and
said,
The
gods
doe
so
vnto
me
and
more
also,
if
the
dust
of
Samaria
shall
suffice
for
handfuls
for
all
the
people
that
follow
me.
11
And
the
king
of
Israel
answered,
and
said,
Tell
him,
Let
not
him
that
girdeth
on
his
harnesse,
boast
himselfe,
as
he
that
putteth
it
off.
12
And
it
came
to
passe,
when
Benhadad
heard
this
message
(as
hee
was
drinking,
he
and
the
kings
in
the
pauilions)
that
hee
said
vnto
his
seruants,
Set
yourselues
in
aray.
And
they
set
themselues
in
aray
against
the
citie.
13
And
behold,
there
came
a
Prophet
vnto
Ahab
king
of
Israel,
saying,
Thus
saith
the
Lord,
Hast
thou
seene
all
this
great
multitude?
behold,
I
will
deliuer
it
into
thine
hand
this
day,
and
thou
shalt
knowe
that
I
am
the
Lord.
14
And
Ahab
saide,
By
whom?
and
he
saide,
Thus
saith
the
Lord,
Euen
by
the
young
men
of
the
Princes
of
the
prouinces:
Then
he
said,
Who
shall
order
the
battell?
And
hee
answered,
Thou.
15
Then
he
numbred
the
young
men
of
the
Princes
of
the
prouinces,
and
they
were
two
hundred
and
thirty
two:
and
after
them
hee
numbred
all
the
people,
euen
all
the
children
of
Israel,
being
seuen
thousand.
16
And
they
went
out
at
noone:
But
Benhadad
was
drinking
himselfe
drunke
in
the
pauilions,
hee
and
the
kings,
the
thirty
and
two
kings
that
helped
him.
17
And
the
young
men
of
the
Princes
of
the
Prouinces
went
out
first,
and
Benhadad
sent
out,
and
they
told
him,
saying,
There
are
men
come
out
of
Samaria.
18
And
he
said,
Whether
they
be
come
out
for
peace,
take
them
aliue:
or
whether
they
be
come
out
for
warre,
take
them
aliue.
19
So
these
yong
men
of
the
princes
of
the
prouinces,
came
out
of
the
citie,
and
the
armie
which
followed
them:
20
And
they
slew
euery
one
his
man:
and
the
Syrians
fled,
and
Israel
pursued
them:
and
Benhadad
the
king
of
Syria
escaped
on
an
horse,
with
the
horsemen.
21
And
the
king
of
Israel
went
out,
and
smote
the
horses
and
charets,
and
slewe
the
Syrians
with
a
great
slaughter.
22
And
the
Prophet
came
to
the
king
of
Israel,
and
said
vnto
him,
Goe,
strengthen
thy
selfe,
and
marke
and
see
what
thou
doest:
for
at
the
returne
of
the
yeere,
the
king
of
Syria
will
come
vp
against
thee.
23
And
the
seruants
of
the
King
of
Syria
said
vnto
him,
Their
gods
are
gods
of
the
hilles,
therefore
they
were
stronger
then
wee:
but
let
vs
fight
against
them
in
the
plaine,
and
surely
we
shall
be
stronger
then
they.
24
And
doe
this
thing,
Take
the
kings
away,
euery
man
out
of
his
place,
and
put
captaines
in
their
roumes.
25
And
number
thee
an
armie,
like
the
armie
that
thou
hast
lost,
horse
for
horse,
and
charet
for
charet:
and
wee
will
fight
against
them
in
the
plaine,
and
surely
wee
shall
be
stronger
then
they.
And
hee
hearkened
vnto
their
voice,
and
did
so.
26
And
it
came
to
passe
at
the
returne
of
the
yeere,
that
Benhadad
numbred
the
Syrians,
and
went
vp
to
Aphek,
to
fight
against
Israel.
27
And
the
children
of
Israel
were
numbred,
and
were
all
present,
and
went
against
them:
and
the
children
of
Israel
pitched
before
them,
like
two
little
flockes
of
kids:
but
the
Syrians
filled
the
countrey.
28
And
there
came
a
man
of
God,
and
spake
vnto
the
king
of
Israel,
and
sayd,
Thus
sayth
the
Lord,
Because
the
Syrians
haue
sayde,
The
Lord
is
God
of
the
hilles,
but
hee
is
not
God
of
the
valleys:
therefore
will
I
deliuer
all
this
great
multitude
into
thine
hand,
and
yee
shall
know
that
I
am
the
Lord.
29
And
they
pitched
one
ouer
against
the
other
seuen
daies,
and
so
it
was,
that
in
the
seuenth
day
the
battell
was
ioyned:
and
the
children
of
Israel
slewe
of
the
Syrians
an
hundred
thousand
footmen
in
one
day.
30
But
the
rest
fled
to
Aphek,
into
the
citie,
and
there
a
wall
fell
vpon
twentie
and
seuen
thousand
of
the
men
that
were
left:
and
Benhadad
fled,
and
came
into
the
citie,
into
an
inner
chamber.
31
And
his
seruants
said
vnto
him,
Behold
now,
wee
haue
heard
that
the
kings
of
the
house
of
Israel
are
mercifull
kings:
let
vs,
I
pray
thee,
put
sackcloth
on
our
loines,
and
ropes
vpon
our
heads,
and
goe
out
to
the
king
of
Israel;
peraduenture
he
will
saue
thy
life.
32
So
they
girded
sackcloth
on
their
loynes,
and
put
ropes
on
their
heads,
and
came
to
the
king
of
Israel,
and
said,
Thy
seruant
Benhadad
saith,
I
pray
thee,
let
me
liue.
And
he
said,
Is
he
yet
aliue?
he
is
my
brother.
33
Now
the
men
did
diligently
obserue
whether
any
thing
would
come
from
him,
and
did
hastily
catch
it:
and
they
saide,
Thy
brother
Benhadad.
Then
he
said,
Goe
ye,
bring
him:
then
Benhadad
came
forth
to
him:
and
hee
caused
him
to
come
vp
into
the
charet.
34
And
Benhadad
said
vnto
him,
The
cities
which
my
father
tooke
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
couenant.
So
he
made
a
couenant
with
him,
and
sent
him
away.
35
And
a
certaine
man
of
the
sonnes
of
the
Prophets,
saide
vnto
his
neighbour
in
the
word
of
the
Lord,
Smite
me,
I
pray
thee.
And
the
man
refused
to
smite
him.
36
Then
said
he
vnto
him,
Because
thou
hast
not
obeyed
the
voyce
of
the
Lord,
beholde,
assoone
as
thou
art
departed
from
me,
a
lyon
shal
slay
thee.
And
assoone
as
hee
was
departed
from
him,
a
lyon
found
him,
and
slew
him.
37
Then
he
found
another
man,
and
said,
Smite
me,
I
pray
thee.
And
the
man
smote
him,
so
that
in
smiting
hee
wounded
him.
38
So
the
prophet
departed,
and
waited
for
the
king
by
the
way,
and
disguised
himselfe
with
ashes
vpon
his
face.
39
And
as
the
king
passed
by,
he
cried
vnto
the
king:
and
he
saide,
Thy
seruant
went
out
into
the
mids
of
the
battell,
and
behold,
a
man
turned
aside,
and
brought
a
man
vnto
me,
and
said,
Keep
this
man:
if
by
any
meanes
he
be
missing,
then
shall
thy
life
be
for
his
life,
or
else
thou
shalt
pay
a
talent
of
siluer.
40
And
as
thy
seruant
was
busie
here
and
there,
he
was
gone.
And
the
king
of
Israel
saide
vnto
him,
So
shall
thy
iudgement
bee,
thy
selfe
hast
discided
it.
41
And
he
hasted,
and
tooke
the
ashes
away
from
his
face,
and
the
king
of
Israel
discerned
him
that
hee
was
of
the
Prophets.
42
And
hee
said
vnto
him,
Thus
saith
the
Lord,
Because
thou
hast
let
goe
out
of
thy
hand,
a
man
whom
I
appointed
to
vtter
destruction,
therfore
thy
life
shall
goe
for
his
life,
and
thy
people
for
his
people.
43
And
the
king
of
Israel
went
to
his
house,
heauie,
and
displeased,
and
came
to
Samaria.
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