World English Bible
1 Kings 20:18
“He said, "If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive.”
Verse in context — 1 Kings 20
16
They went out at noon. But Ben Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings who helped him.
17
The young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben Hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, "Men are coming out from Samaria.
18
He said, "If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive.
19
So these went out of the city, the young men of the princes of the provinces, and the army which followed them.
20
They each killed his man. The Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them. Ben Hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with horsemen.
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Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
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