Verse 27
1 Kings 20:27
Darby Translation
27
And the children of Israel were numbered and victualled, and they went against them; and the children of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of goats; but the Syrians filled the land.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וּ/בְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל הָתְפָּקְדוּ֙ וְ/כָלְכְּל֔וּ וַ/יֵּלְכ֖וּ לִ/קְרָאתָ֑/ם וַ/יַּחֲנ֨וּ בְנֵֽי יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל נֶגְדָּ֗/ם כִּ/שְׁנֵי֙ חֲשִׂפֵ֣י עִזִּ֔ים וַ/אֲרָ֖ם מִלְא֥וּ אֶת הָ/אָֽרֶץ
English Translation
And the sons of Israel were numbered, and they gathered together, and the sons of Israel camped opposite them like two male goats, and Aram filled the land.
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Chapter 20 Context
1
And Ben-Hadad king of Syria assembled all his host; and there were thirty-two kings with him, and ho...
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And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and said to him, Thus says Ben-Hadad:
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Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, the goodliest, are mine.
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And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king, according to thy saying, I am thine, and...
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And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaks Ben-Hadad saying: I sent to thee indeed, saying...
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but to-morrow about this time I will send my servants to thee, and they shall search thy house, and...
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And the king of Israel called all the elders of the land and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how thi...
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And all the elders and all the people said to him, Hearken not, nor consent.
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And he said to the messengers of Ben-Hadad, Tell my lord the king, All that thou didst send for to t...
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And Ben-Hadad sent to him and said, The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shal...
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And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell [him], Let not him that girdeth on boast himself as h...
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And it came to pass when he heard this word, as he was drinking, he and the kings in the tents, that...
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And behold, a prophet drew near to Ahab king of Israel, and said, Thus saith Jehovah: Hast thou seen...
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And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith Jehovah: By the servants of the princes of the provi...
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And he numbered the servants of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty-t...
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And they went out at noon; and Ben-Hadad drank himself drunk in the tents, he and the kings, the thi...
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And the servants of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben-Hadad sent out, and they to...
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And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for wa...
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And these servants of the princes of the provinces came out of the city, and the army that followed...
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And they slew every one his man; and the Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them; and Ben-Hadad the ki...
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And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a grea...
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And the prophet drew near to the king of Israel, and said to him, Go, strengthen thyself, and unders...
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And the servants of the king of Syria said to him, Their gods are gods of the mountains; therefore t...
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And do this: take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put governors in their stead;
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and number thee an army, like the army that thou hast lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot...
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And it came to pass, at the return of the year, that Ben-Hadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to...
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And the children of Israel were numbered and victualled, and they went against them; and the childre...
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And the man of God (Elohim) drew near, and spoke to the king of Israel and said, Thus saith Jehovah:...
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And they encamped one over against the other seven days; and it came to pass that on the seventh day...
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And the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men of them th...
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And his servants said to him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are me...
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And they girded sackcloth on their loins, and ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel,...
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And the men took it as a good omen, and hastened to catch what came from him, and they said, Thy bro...
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And [Ben-Hadad] said to him, The cities that my father took from thy father I will restore; and thou...
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And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to another by the word of Jehovah, Smite me, I pr...
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Then said he to him, Because thou hast not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah, behold, when thou depa...
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Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man smote him violently, and wou...
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And the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with a sash over...
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And as the king passed by, he cried to the king and said, Thy servant went out into the midst of the...
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And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And the king of Israel said to him, So [is]...
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Then he hastily took the sash away from his face; and the king of Israel discerned him, that he was...
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And he said to him, Thus saith Jehovah: Because thou hast let go out of thy hand the man that I had...
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And the king of Israel went to his house sullen and vexed, and came to Samaria.
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