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1 Kings 20:18

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He said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive.”

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1 Kings 20:18 in other translations

And he said, Whether they are come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they are come out for war, take them alive.

1 Kings 20:18 · American Standard Version

1 Kings 20:18 in context

  1. 16They went out at noon. But Ben Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings who helped him.
  2. 17The young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben Hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, “Men are coming out from Samaria.”
  3. 18He said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive.”
  4. 19So these went out of the city, the young men of the princes of the provinces, and the army which followed them.
  5. 20They each killed his man. The Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them. Ben Hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with horsemen.