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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh Benhadad, saying, although I have sent unto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children; Yet I will end my servants unto thee tomorrow about this time, and they shall search thine house, and the houses of thy servants; and it shall be that...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Yet I will send my servants unto thee tomorrow about this time,.... He gave him twenty four hours to consider of it: and they shall search thine house, and the houses of thy servants; the royal palace, and the houses of the noblemen, and even of every of his subjects in Samaria: and it shall be, that whatsoever is pleasant (or desirable) in thine...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then the King of Israel called all the elders of the land,.... His poor sneaking spirit was a little aroused with the last message, and therefore called a council of the elders of the people upon it, which was a piece of wisdom in him: and said, mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh mischief; nothing less than the entire ruin of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then the king of Israel 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. And all the elders and all the people said unto him, Hearken not unto him, nor consent. Wherefore he said unto...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And all the elders and all the people said unto him,.... They were unanimous in their advice: hearken not [unto him], nor consent; promising, no doubt, that they would stand by him.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Wherefore he sent unto the messengers of Benhadad,.... Upon the advice the elders had given him, and encouraged thereby, though in a poor sneaking manner after all: tell my lord the king, all that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first I will do; owning him as his lord, and himself as his servant, and promising to grant his first demand,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Benhadad sent unto him, and said,.... That is, to Ahab: the gods do so unto me, and more also; bring greater evils upon me than I can think or express: if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me, signifying that he made no doubt of it of reducing it to dust by numbers of men he should bring with him,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Benhadad sent unto him, and said, The gods do so unto me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me. As much as to say, “I will bring so many against you that all the dust of the city would not be enough to furnish a handful each.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Ver. 11 And the king of Israel answered and said,.... Very mildly and very wisely: tell him, let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off; that is, he that prepares for the battle as he that has got the victory; the sense is, let no man triumph before the battle is over and the victory won; the events of war are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off. That was a sharp shrewd check to the boasting of the Syrian king.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And it came to pass, when Benhadad heard this message (as he was drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions),.... Though it was at noon, or before, 1 Kings 20:16, which shows that he and they were addicted to intemperance: that he said unto his servants; some of the principal officers of his army: set yourselves in array; prepare for battle,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And it came to pass, when Benhadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, that he said unto his servants, Set yourselves in array. And they set themselves in array against the city. And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king of Israel, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou seen all this great multitude?...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king of Israel,.... Supposed by the Jewish writers to be Micaiah the son of Imlah, 1 Kings 22:9 one of those perhaps that Obadiah hid in the cave, and now is sent out publicly on an errand to Ahab: saying, thus saith the Lord, hast thou seen all this great multitude? considered what a vast number...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Ahab said, by whom?.... Knowing he had no army with him sufficient to go out with against the Syrian army: and he said, thus saith the Lord, even by the young men of the princes of the provinces; either such, as Kimchi thinks, who were brought up with him; or, as others, the sons of governors of provinces, who were kept as hostages, that their...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two,.... A very small number to go forth against so great an army as the host of the Syrians, and these raw unexperienced young men: and after them he numbered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand; which could never...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And they went out at noon,.... From Samaria, the two hundred and thirty two young men, and the 7000 Israelites, openly, with great spirit and courage, fearless and undaunted; but it is not said that Ahab went out at the head of them; it seems as if he did not by what is said, 1 Kings 20:21, but Benhadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they went out at noon. But Benhadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him. And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Benhadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men come out of Samaria. And he said, — In his drunken fury,” he said,” —
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first,.... From Samaria, before the 7000 did: and Benhadad sent out; of his pavilion, a messenger or messengers to his sentinels, to know what news, and how matters stood, whether Ahab had sent any message, signifying his compliance with his terms: and they told him, saying, there are men...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he said, whether they be come out for peace,.... To propose terms of peace: take them alive; make them prisoners, which was contrary to the laws of nations: or whether they be come out for war, take them alive; he made no doubt of their being easily taken; but he would not have them be put to death, that he might examine them, and know the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive. They were not to be so easily taken as Benhadad imagined.