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32 So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Ben-hadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother. 33 Now the men [a]observed diligently, and hasted [b]to catch whether it were [c]his mind; 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 the chariot. 34 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 Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. And I, said Ahab, will let thee go with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and let him go.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 20:33 Or, took it as an omen (Hebrew divined), and hasted
  2. 1 Kings 20:33 Another reading is, to catch it from him
  3. 1 Kings 20:33 Hebrew from him.