Verse 33
1 Kings 20:33
Literal Standard Version
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And the men observe diligently, and hurry, and catch the word from him, and say, “Your brother Ben-Hadad”; and he says, “Go in, bring him”; and Ben-Hadad comes out to him, and he causes him to come up on the chariot.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/הָ/אֲנָשִׁים֩ יְנַחֲשׁ֨וּ וַֽ/יְמַהֲר֜וּ וַ/יַּחְלְט֣וּ הֲ/מִמֶּ֗/נּוּ וַ/יֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ אָחִ֣י/ךָ בֶן הֲדַ֔ד וַ/יֹּ֖אמֶר בֹּ֣אוּ קָחֻ֑/הוּ וַ/יֵּצֵ֤א אֵלָי/ו֙ בֶּן הֲדַ֔ד וַֽ/יַּעֲלֵ֖/הוּ עַל הַ/מֶּרְכָּבָֽה
English Translation
And the men hastened and decided, "Is he not Ben Hadad?" And he said, "Come, take him." And Ben Hadad went out to him and he was lifted up onto the chariot.
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Chapter 20 Context
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And Ben-Hadad king of Aram has gathered all his force, and thirty-two kings are with him, and horse...
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and sends messengers to Ahab king of Israel, to the city,
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and says to him, “Thus said Ben-Hadad: Your silver and your gold are mine, and your wives and your s...
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And the king of Israel answers and says, “According to your word, my lord, O king: I am yours, and a...
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And the messengers turn back and say, “Thus spoke Ben-Hadad, saying, Surely I sent to you, saying, Y...
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for if, at this time tomorrow, I send my servants to you, then they have searched your house, and th...
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And the king of Israel calls to all the elderly of the land and says, “Please know and see that this...
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And all the elderly and all the people say to him, “Do not listen, nor consent.”
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And he says to the messengers of Ben-Hadad, “Say to my lord the king, All that you sent to your serv...
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And Ben-Hadad sends to him and says, “Thus the gods do to me, and thus do they add, if the dust of S...
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And the king of Israel answers and says, “Speak: Do not let him who is girding on boast himself as h...
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And it comes to pass at the hearing of this word—and he is drinking, he and the kings, in the shelte...
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And behold, a certain prophet has come near to Ahab king of Israel and says, “Thus said YHWH: Have y...
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And Ahab says, “By whom?” And he says, “Thus said YHWH: By the young men of the heads of the provinc...
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And he inspects the young men of the heads of the provinces, and they are two hundred and thirty-two...
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and they go out at noon, and Ben-Hadad is drinking—drunk in the shelters, he and the kings, the thir...
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And the young men of the heads of the provinces go out at the first, and Ben-Hadad sends, and they d...
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And he says, “If they have come out for peace, catch them alive; and if they have come out for battl...
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And these have gone out of the city—the young men of the heads of the provinces—and the force that i...
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and each strikes his man, and Aram flees, and Israel pursues them, and Ben-Hadad king of Aram escape...
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and the king of Israel goes out, and strikes the horses, and the charioteers, and has struck among t...
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And the prophet comes near to the king of Israel and says to him, “Go, strengthen yourself, and know...
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And the servants of the king of Aram said to him, “Their gods are gods of hills, therefore they were...
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And this thing you do: turn aside each of the kings out of his place, and set captains in their stea...
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and you, number for yourself a force as the force that is fallen from you, and horse for horse, and...
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And it comes to pass at the turn of the year, that Ben-Hadad inspects the Arameans, and goes up to A...
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and the sons of Israel have been inspected, and supported, and go to meet them, and the sons of Isra...
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And a man of God (Elohim) comes near, and speaks to the king of Israel and says, “Thus said YHWH: Be...
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And they encamp opposite one another for seven days, and it comes to pass on the seventh day, that t...
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And those left flee to Aphek, into the city, and the wall falls on twenty-seven chief men who are le...
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And his servants say to him, “Now behold, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel—that t...
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And they gird sackcloth on their loins, and ropes are on their heads, and they come to the king of I...
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And the men observe diligently, and hurry, and catch the word from him, and say, “Your brother Ben-H...
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And he says to him, “The cities that my father took from your father, I give back, and you make stre...
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And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his neighbor by the word of YHWH, “Please stri...
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and he says to him, “Because that you have not listened to the voice of YHWH, behold, you are going...
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And he finds another man and says, “Please strike me”; and the man strikes him, striking and woundin...
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and the prophet goes and stands for the king on the way, and disguises himself with ashes on his eye...
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And it comes to pass—the king is passing by—that he has cried to the king and says, “Your servant we...
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and it comes to pass, your servant is working here and there, and he is not!” And the king of Israel...
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And he hurries and turns aside the ashes from off his eyes, and the king of Israel discerns him, tha...
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and he says to him, “Thus said YHWH: Because you have sent away the man I devoted, out of your hand,...
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and the king of Israel goes to his house, sulky and angry, and comes to Samaria.
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