Sinai1 Kings 20:18
American Standard Version
And he said, Whether they are come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they are come out for war, take them alive.
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1 Kings 20:18 in other translations
He said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive.”
1 Kings 20:18 in context
- 16And 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.
- 17And 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 from Samaria.
- 18And he said, Whether they are come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they are come out for war, take them alive.
- 19So these went out of the city, the young men of the princes of the provinces, and the army which followed them.
- 20And 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 horsemen.