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32 So they girded sackcloth on their loins, put ropes on their heads, came to the king of Israel and said, “Your servant Ben-Hadad says: ‘Please let me live.’”

He replied, “Is he still alive? He is my brother.”

33 The men took it as a good sign and were quick to catch on, so they said, “Yes, Ben-Hadad is your brother.”

“Go, bring him,” he said. So Ben-Hadad came out to him and he took him up into his chariot.

34 Then he said to him, “The cities which my father took from your father I will give back, and you may set up markets for yourself in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.”

“Then I will let you go with this covenant.” So he made a covenant with him and let him go.

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