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2 Kings 6:22

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He answered, “You shall not strike them. Would you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.”

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2 Kings 6:22 in other translations

And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.

2 Kings 6:22 · American Standard Version

2 Kings 6:22 in context

  1. 20When they had come into Samaria, Elisha said, “Yahweh, open these men’s eyes, that they may see.”
    Yahweh opened their eyes, and they saw; and behold, they were in the middle of Samaria.
  2. 21The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, “My father, shall I strike them? Shall I strike them?”
  3. 22He answered, “You shall not strike them. Would you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.”
  4. 23He prepared a great feast for them. When they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria stopped raiding the land of Israel.
  5. 24After this, Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria.