1 Kings 20:1
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Ahab's Wars with Syria
20 (A)Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his army together. (B)Thirty-two kings were with him, and horses and chariots. And he went up and closed in on (C)Samaria and fought against it.
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1 Kings 15:18
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18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold (A)that were left in the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king's house and gave them into the hands of his servants. (B)And King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, (C)who lived in Damascus, saying,
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1 Kings 22:31
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31 Now the king of Syria had commanded (A)the thirty-two captains of his chariots, “Fight with neither small nor great, but only with the king of Israel.”
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1 Kings 15:20
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20 And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel and conquered (A)Ijon, (B)Dan, (C)Abel-beth-maacah, and all (D)Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.
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Amos 1:4
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4 (A)So I will send a fire upon the house of (B)Hazael,
and it shall devour the strongholds of (C)Ben-hadad.
Daniel 2:37
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37 You, O king, (A)the king of kings, to whom (B)the God of heaven (C)has given the kingdom, the power, and the might, and the glory,
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Ezekiel 26:7
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7 “For thus says the Lord God: (A)Behold, I will bring against Tyre (B)from the north Nebuchadnezzar[a] king of Babylon, (C)king of kings, with horses and chariots, and with horsemen and a host of many soldiers.
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- Ezekiel 26:7 Hebrew Nebuchadrezzar; so throughout Ezekiel
Jeremiah 49:27
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27 And (A)I will kindle a fire in the wall of (B)Damascus,
and it shall devour the strongholds of (C)Ben-hadad.”
Isaiah 37:24
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24 By your servants you have mocked the Lord,
and you have said, (A)With my many chariots
I have gone up the heights of the mountains,
to the far recesses of Lebanon,
(B)to cut down its tallest cedars,
its choicest cypresses,
to come to its remotest height,
its most fruitful forest.
Isaiah 10:8
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8 for he says:
(A)“Are not my commanders all kings?
2 Chronicles 16:2-4
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2 Then Asa took silver and gold from the treasures of the house of the Lord and the king's house and sent them to Ben-hadad king of Syria, who lived in Damascus, saying, 3 “There is a covenant[a] between me and you, as there was between my father and your father. Behold, I am sending to you silver and gold. Go, break your covenant with Baasha king of Israel, that he may withdraw from me.” 4 And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, and they conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel-maim, and all the (A)store cities of Naphtali.
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- 2 Chronicles 16:3 Or treaty; twice in this verse
2 Kings 17:5-6
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5 Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land and came to Samaria, and for three years he besieged it.
The Fall of Israel
6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria (A)captured Samaria, (B)and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria (C)and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of (D)Gozan, and in the cities of (E)the Medes.
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2 Kings 8:7-10
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Hazael Murders Ben-hadad
7 Now Elisha came to (A)Damascus. (B)Ben-hadad the king of Syria was sick. And when it was told him, “The man of God has come here,” 8 the king said to (C)Hazael, (D)“Take a present with you and go to meet the man of God, (E)and inquire of the Lord through him, saying, ‘Shall I recover from this sickness?’” 9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, all kinds of goods of Damascus, forty camels' loads. When he came and stood before him, he said, (F)“Your son Ben-hadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, ‘Shall I recover from this sickness?’” 10 And Elisha said to him, (G)“Go, say to him, ‘You shall certainly recover,’ but[a] the Lord has shown me that (H)he shall certainly die.”
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- 2 Kings 8:10 Some manuscripts say, ‘You shall certainly not recover,’ for
2 Kings 6:24-29
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Ben-hadad's Siege of Samaria
24 Afterward (A)Ben-hadad king of Syria mustered his entire army and went up and besieged Samaria. 25 And there was a great famine in Samaria, as they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab[a] of dove's dung for five shekels of silver. 26 Now as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!” 27 And he said, “If the Lord will not help you, how shall I help you? From the threshing floor, or from the winepress?” 28 And the king asked her, “What is your trouble?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’ 29 (B)So we boiled my son and ate him. And on the next day I said to her, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him.’ But she has hidden her son.”
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- 2 Kings 6:25 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams; a kab was about 1 quart or 1 liter
1 Kings 20:24
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24 And do this: remove the kings, each from his post, and put commanders in their places,
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1 Kings 20:16
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16 And they went out at noon, while Ben-hadad (A)was drinking himself drunk in the booths, he and the thirty-two kings who helped him.
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1 Kings 16:24
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24 He bought the hill of (A)Samaria from Shemer for two talents[a] of silver, and he fortified the hill and called the name of the city that he built (B)Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.
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- 1 Kings 16:24 A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
1 Samuel 13:5
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5 And the Philistines mustered to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen and troops (A)like the sand on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of (B)Beth-aven.
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Judges 4:3
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3 Then the people of Israel (A)cried out to the Lord for help, for he had (B)900 chariots of iron and he oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years.
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Judges 1:7
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7 And Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and their big toes cut off (A)used to pick up scraps under my table. (B)As I have done, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
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Deuteronomy 28:52
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52 “They shall (A)besiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land. And they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the Lord your God has given you.
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Deuteronomy 20:1
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Laws Concerning Warfare
20 “When you go out to war against your enemies, and see (A)horses and chariots and an army larger than your own, you shall not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God is (B)with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
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Leviticus 26:25
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25 And (A)I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, (B)I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
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Exodus 14:7
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7 and took (A)six hundred chosen chariots and all the other chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them.
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