These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
1 Kings 20
Tanakh 43 verses
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And Ben-hadad the of Aram gathered all his host together; and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses and chariots; and he went up and besieged , and fought against it.
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And he sent messengers to of , into the city,
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and said unto him: ‘Thus saith Ben-hadad: Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine.’
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And the of answered and said: ‘It is according to thy saying, my lord, O : I am thine, and all that I have.’
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- 5 And the messengers came again, and said: ‘Thus speaketh Ben-hadad, saying: I sent indeed unto thee, saying: Thou shalt deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children;
- 6 but I will send my servants unto thee tomorrow about this time, and they shall search thy house, and the houses of thy servants; and it shall be, that whatsoever is pleasant in thine eyes, they shall put it in their hand, and take it away.’
- 7 Then the of called all the elders of the land, and said: ‘Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh mischief; for he sent unto me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not.’
- 8 And all the elders and all the people said unto him: ‘Hearken thou not, neither consent.’
- 9 Wherefore he said unto the messengers of Ben-hadad: ‘Tell my lord the : All that thou didst send for to thy at the first I will do; but this thing I may not do.’ And the messengers departed, and brought him back .
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And Ben-hadad sent unto him, and said: ‘The Elohims do so unto me, and more also, if the dust of shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.’
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- 11 And the of answered and said: ‘Tell him: Let not him that girdeth on his armour boast himself as he that putteth it off.’
- 12 And it came to pass, when [Ben-hadad] heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings, in the booths, that he said unto his servants: ‘Set yourselves in array.’ And they set themselves in array against the city.
- 13 And, behold, a came near unto of , and said: ‘Thus saith : Hast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into thy hand this day; and thou shalt that I am .’
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And said: ‘By whom?’ And he said: ‘Thus saith : By the young men of the princes of the provinces.’ Then he said: ‘Who shall begin the battle?’ And he answered: ‘Thou.’
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Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty-two; and after them he numbered all the people, even all the children of , being seven thousand.
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And they went out at noon. But Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the booths, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.
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And 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 .’
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And he said: ‘Whether they are come out for , take them alive; or whether they are come out for war, take them alive.’
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- 19 So these went out of the city, the young men of the princes of the provinces, and the army which followed them.
- 20 And they slew every one his man; and the Arameans fled, and pursued them; and Ben-hadad the of Aram escaped on a horse with horsemen.
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And the of went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the Arameans with a great slaughter.
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- 22 And the came near to the of , and said unto him: ‘Go, strengthen thyself, and mark, and see what thou doest; for at the return of the year the of Aram will come up against thee.’
- 23 And the servants of the of Aram said unto him: ‘Their is a of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.
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And do this thing: take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put governors in their room:
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and number thee an army, like the army that thou hast lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot; and we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.’ And he hearkened unto their voice, and did so.
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And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Ben-hadad mustered the Arameans, and went up to Aphek, to fight against .
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And the children of were mustered, and were victualled, and went against them; and the children of encamped before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Arameans filled the country.
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And a man of came near and spoke unto the of , and said: ‘Thus saith : Because the Arameans have said: The is a of the hills, but he is not a of the valleys; therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thy hand, and ye shall that I am .’
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1 Kings 20:13 1 Kings 17:18 Ezekiel 39:7 Jeremiah 14:7 Ezekiel 36:21-23 Ezekiel 20:14 Deuteronomy 29:6 Isaiah 37:29-37 Ezekiel 20:9 1 Kings 13:1 Deuteronomy 32:27 1 Kings 20:22-23 Ezekiel 11:12 Ezekiel 12:16 Job 12:16-19 Exodus 7:5 Ezekiel 36:32 Joshua 7:8-9 Exodus 6:7 Ezekiel 6:14 2 Chronicles 20:14-20 Exodus 8:22 Psalm 58:10-11 Psalm 79:10 - 29 And they encamped one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined; and the children of slew of the Arameans a hundred thousand footmen in one day.
- 30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand men that were left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
- 31 And his servants said unto him: ‘Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of are merciful kings; let us, we pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the of ; peradventure he will thy life.’
- 32 So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the of , and said: ‘Thy Ben-hadad saith: I pray thee, let me live.’ And he said: ‘Is he yet alive? he is my brother.’
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Now the men took it for a sign, and hastened to catch it from him; and they said: ‘Thy brother Ben-hadad.’ Then he said: ‘Go ye, bring him.’ Then Ben-hadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into his chariot.
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And [Ben-hadad] said unto him: ‘The cities which my father took from thy father I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in , as my father made in .’ ‘And I, said , will let thee go with this .’ So he made a with him, and let him go.
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- 35 And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his fellow by the of : ‘Smite me, I pray thee.’ And the man refused to smite him.
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Then said he unto him: ‘Because thou hast not heartened to the voice of , behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee.’ And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him; and slew him.
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Then he found another man, and said: ‘Smite me, I pray thee.’ And the man smote him, smiting and wounding him.
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So the departed, and waited for the by the way, and disguised himself with his headband over his eyes.
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- 39 And as the passed by, he cried unto the ; and he said: ‘Thy went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said: Keep this man; if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a of silver.
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And as thy was busy here and there, he was gone.’ And the of said unto him: ‘So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast decided it.’
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And he hastened, and took the headband away from his eyes; and the of discerned him that he was of the prophets.
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And he said unto him: ‘Thus saith : Because thou hast let go out of thy hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people.’
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And the of went to his house sullen and displeased, and came to .
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