King James Version (KJV)
1 Kings 20:18
“And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.”
Verse in context — 1 Kings 20
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, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.
So these young men of the princes of the provinces came out of the city, and the army which followed them.
And they slew every one his man: and the Syrians fled; and Israel pursued them: and Benhadad the king of Syria escaped on an horse with the horsemen.
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Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
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