1st Kings Chapter 20 1 Benhadad the king of Syria gathered all his army together; thirty-two kings were with him, and horses and chariots; and he went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it. 2 And he sent messengers into the city to Ahab king of Israel, and said to him, "Thus says Benhadad: 3 'Your silver and your gold are mine; your fairest wives and children also are mine.'" 4 And the king of Israel answered, "As you say, my lord, O king, I am yours, and all that I have." 5 The messengers came again, and said, "Thus says Benhadad: 'I sent to you, saying, "Deliver to me your silver and your gold, your wives and your children"; 6 nevertheless I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, and they shall search your house and the houses of your servants, and lay hands on whatever pleases them, and take it away.'" 7 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, "Mark, now, and see how this man is seeking trouble; for he sent to me for my wives and my children, and for my silver and my gold, and I did not refuse him." 8 And all the elders and all the people said to him, "Do not heed or consent." 9 So he said to the messengers of Benhadad, "Tell my lord the king, 'All that you first demanded of your servant I will do; but this thing I cannot do.'" And the messengers departed and brought him word again. 10 Benhadad sent to him and said, "The gods do so to me, and more also, if 11 And the king of Israel answered, "Tell him, 'Let not him that girds on his armor boast himself as he that puts it off.'" 12 When Benhadad heard this message as he was drinking with the kings in the booths, he said to his men, "Take your positions." And they took their positions against the city. 13 And behold, a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel and said, "Thus says YAHWEH, Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will give it into your hand this day; and you shall know that I am YAHWEH." 14 And Ahab said, "By whom?" He said, "Thus says YAHWEH, By the servants of the governors of the districts." Then he said, "Who shall begin the battle?" He answered, "You." 15 Then he mustered the servants of the governors of the districts, and they were two hundred and thirty-two; and after them he mustered all the people of Israel, seven thousand. 16 And they went out at noon, while Benhadad was drinking himself drunk in the booths, he and the thirty-two kings who helped him. the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people who follow me." 17 The servants of the governors of the districts went out first. And Benhadad sent out scouts, and they reported to him, "Men are coming out from Samaria." 18 He said, "If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive." 19 So these went out of the city, the servants of the governors of the districts, and the army which followed them. 20 And each killed his man; the Syrians fled and Israel pursued them, but Benhadad king of Syria escaped on a horse with horsemen. 21 And the king of Israel went out, and captured the horses and chariots, and killed the Syrians with a great slaughter. 22 Then the prophet came near to the king of Israel, and said to him, "Come, strengthen yourself, and consider well what you have to do; for in the spring the king of Syria will come up against you." 23 And the servants of the king of Syria said to him, "Their gods are gods of the hills, and so they were stronger than we; but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. 24 And do this: remove the kings, each from his post, and put commanders in their places; 25 and muster an army like the army that you have lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot; then we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they." And he hearkened to their voice, and did so. 26 In the spring Benhadad mustered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel. 27 And the people of Israel were mustered, and were provisioned, and went against them; the people of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of goats, but the Syrians filled the country. 28 And a man of God came near and said to the king of Israel, "Thus says YAHWEH, 'Because the Syrians have said, " YAHWEH is a god of the hills but he is not a god of the valleys," therefore I will give all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am YAHWEH.'" 29 And they encamped opposite one another seven days. Then on the seventh day the battle was joined; and the people of Israel smote of the Syrians a hundred thousand foot soldiers in one day. 30 And the rest fled into the city of Aphek; and the wall fell upon twenty-seven thousand men that were left. Benhadad also fled, and entered an inner chamber in the city. 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 put sackcloth on our loins and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel; perhaps he will spare your life." 32 So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and went to the king of Israel and said, "Your servant Benhadad says, 'Pray, let me live.'" And he said, "Does he still live? He is my brother." 33 Now the men were watching for an omen, and they quickly took it up from him and said, "Yes, your brother Benhadad." Then he said, "Go and bring him." Then Benhadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot. 34 And Benhadad said to him, "The cities which my father took from your father I will restore; and you may establish bazaars for yourself in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria." And Ahab said, "I will let you go on these terms." So he made a covenant with him and let him go. 35 And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow at the command of YAHWEH, "Strike me, I pray." But the man refused to strike him. 36 Then he said to him, "Because you have not obeyed the voice of YAHWEH, behold, as soon as you have gone from me, a lion shall kill you." And as soon as he had departed from him, a lion met him and killed him. 37 Then he found another man, and said, "Strike me, I pray." And the man struck him, smiting and wounding him. 38 So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, disguising himself with a bandage over his eyes. 39 And as the king passed, he cried to the king and said, "Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and behold, a soldier turned and brought a man to me, and said, 'Keep this man; if by any means he be missing, your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.' 40 And as your servant was busy here and there, he was gone." The king of Israel said to him, "So shall your judgment be; you yourself have decided it." 41 Then he made haste to take the bandage away from his eyes; and the king of Israel recognized him as one of the prophets. 42 And he said to him, "Thus says YAHWEH, 'Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people.'" 43 And the king of Israel went to his house resentful and sullen, and came to Samaria.

Chronicles or Kings 1 Kings 18:22 Then Elijah said to the people, "I, even I only, am left a prophet of YAHWEH; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men. 1 Kings 19:10 He said, "I have been very jealous for YAHWEH, the God of hosts; for the people of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thy altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away." I Kings 18:4 and when Jezebel cut off the prophets of YAHWEH, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave, and fed them with bread and water. 1 Kings 18:13 Has it not been told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of YAHWEH, how I hid a hundred men of YAHWEH's prophets by fifties in a cave, and fed them with bread and water? 1 Kings 18:14 And now you say, 'Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Elijah is here"'; and he will kill me." 1 Kings 20:13 And behold, a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel and said, "Thus says YAHWEH, Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will give it into your hand this day; and you shall know that I am YAHWEH." 1 Kings 18:17 When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, "Is it you, you troubler of Israel?" 1 Kings 18:18 And he answered, "I have not troubled Israel; but you have, and your father's house, because you have forsaken the commandments of YAHWEH and followed the Baals. 2 Kings 13:17 And he said, "Open the window eastward"; and he opened it. Then Elisha said, "Shoot"; and he shot. And he said, "YAHWEH's arrow of victory, the arrow of victory over Syria! For you shall fight the Syrians in Aphek until you have made an end of them." 1 Kings 22:25 And Micaiah said, "Behold, you shall see on that day when you go into an inner chamber to hide yourself." 2 Chronicles 18:24 And Micaiah said, "Behold, you shall see on that day when you go into an inner chamber to hide yourself." 1 Kings 13:17 for it was said to me by the word of YAHWEH, 'You shall neither eat bread nor drink water there, nor return by the way that you came.'" 1 Kings 13:18 And he said to him, "I also am a prophet as you are, and an angel spoke to me by the word of YAHWEH, saying, 'Bring him back with you into your house that he may eat bread and drink water.'" But he lied to him. 1 Kings 13:21 and he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, "Thus says YAHWEH, 'Because you have disobeyed the word of YAHWEH, and have not kept the commandment which YAHWEH your God commanded you, 1 Kings 13:22 but have come back, and have eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he said to you, "Eat no bread, and drink no water"; your body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.'" 1 Kings 13:23 And after he had eaten bread and drunk, he saddled the ass for the prophet whom he had brought back. 1 Kings 13:24 And as he went away a lion met him on the road and killed him. And his body was thrown in the road, and the ass stood beside it; the lion also stood beside the body. 2 Kings 10:24 Then he went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside, and said, "The man who allows any of those whom I give into your hands to escape shall forfeit his life."

Samuel 1 Samuel 13:5 And the Philistines mustered to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and troops like the sand on the seashore in multitude; they came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of Bethaven. 1 Samuel 13:6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in straits (for the people were hard pressed), the people hid themselves in caves and in holes and in rocks and in tombs and in cisterns, 1 Samuel 13:7 or crossed the fords of the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. Saul was still at Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling. 1 Samuel 13:8 He waited seven days, the time appointed by Samuel; but Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the people were scattering from him. 1 Samuel 7:11 And the men of Israel went out of Mizpah and pursued the Philistines, and smote them, as far as below Bethcar. 1 Samuel 14:48 And he did valiantly, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of those who plundered them. 1 Samuel 27:9 And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, but took away the sheep, the oxen, the asses, the camels, and the garments, and came back to Achish. 1 Samuel 30:17 And David smote them from twilight until the evening of the next day; and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men, who mounted camels and fled. 2 Samuel 5:25 And David did as YAHWEH commanded him, and smote the Philistines from Geba to Gezer. 1 Samuel 15:2 Thus says YAHWEH of hosts, 'I will punish what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way, when they came up out of Egypt. 1 Samuel 15:3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.'" 1 Samuel 15:8 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. 1 Samuel 15:9 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them; all that was despised and worthless they utterly destroyed. 1 Samuel 15:10 The word of YAHWEH came to Samuel: 11 "I repent that I have made Saul king; for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments." And Samuel was angry; and he cried to YAHWEH all night. 1 Samuel 15:12 And Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and it was told Samuel, "Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself and turned, and passed on, and went down to Gilgal." 1 Samuel 15:13 And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, "Blessed be you to YAHWEH; I have performed the commandment of YAHWEH." 1 Samuel 15:14 And Samuel said, "What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?" 1 Samuel 15:15 Saul said, "They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice to YAHWEH your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed." 1 Samuel 15:16 Then Samuel said to Saul, "Stop! I will tell you what YAHWEH said to me this night." And he said to him, "Say on." 1 Samuel 15:17 And Samuel said, "Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? YAHWEH anointed you king over Israel. 1 Samuel 15:18 And YAHWEH sent you on a mission, and said, 'Go, utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.' 1 Samuel 15:19 Why then did you not obey the voice of YAHWEH? Why did you swoop on the spoil, and do what was evil in the sight of YAHWEH?" 1 Samuel 15:20 And Saul said to Samuel, "I have obeyed the voice of YAHWEH, I have gone on the mission on which YAHWEH sent me, I have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and I have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. 1 Samuel 15:21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to YAHWEH your God in Gilgal." 1 Samuel 15:22 And Samuel said, "Has YAHWEH as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of YAHWEH? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. 1 Samuel 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of YAHWEH, he has also rejected you from being king." 1 Samuel 15:24 And Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of YAHWEH and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice. 1 Samuel 15:25 Now therefore, I pray, pardon my sin, and return with me, that I may worship YAHWEH." 1 Samuel 15:26 And Samuel said to Saul, "I will not return with you; for you have rejected the word of YAHWEH, and YAHWEH has rejected you from being king over Israel." 1 Samuel 15:27 As Samuel turned to go away, Saul laid hold upon the skirt of his robe, and it tore. 1 Samuel 15:28 And Samuel said to him, " YAHWEH has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.