1 Kings 20:1
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Ahab Defeats the Syrians
20 Now (A)Ben-Hadad the king of Syria gathered all his forces together; thirty-two kings were with him, with horses and chariots. And he went up and besieged (B)Samaria, and made war against it.
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1 Kings 15:18
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18 Then Asa took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the house of the Lord and the treasuries of the king’s house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants. And King Asa sent them to (A)Ben-Hadad the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who dwelt in (B)Damascus, saying,
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1 Kings 22:31
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31 Now the (A)king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two (B)captains of his chariots, saying, “Fight with no one small or great, but only with the king of Israel.”
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1 Kings 15:20
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20 So Ben-Hadad heeded King Asa, and (A)sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel. He attacked (B)Ijon, (C)Dan, (D)Abel Beth Maachah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.
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Amos 1:4
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4 (A)But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael,
Which shall devour the palaces of (B)Ben-Hadad.
Daniel 2:37
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37 (A)You, O king, are a king of kings. (B)For the God of heaven has given you a kingdom, power, strength, and glory;
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Ezekiel 26:7
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7 “For thus says the Lord God: ‘Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north (A)Nebuchadnezzar[a] king of Babylon, (B)king of kings, with horses, with chariots, and with horsemen, and an army with many people.
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- Ezekiel 26:7 Heb. Nebuchadrezzar, and so elsewhere in the book
Jeremiah 49:27
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27 “I(A) will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus,
And it shall consume the palaces of Ben-Hadad.”
Isaiah 37:24
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24 By your servants you have reproached the Lord,
And said, ‘By the multitude of my chariots
I have come up to the height of the mountains,
To the limits of Lebanon;
I will cut down its tall cedars
And its choice cypress trees;
I will enter its farthest height,
To its fruitful forest.
Isaiah 10:8
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8 (A)For he says,
‘Are not my princes altogether kings?
Ezra 7:12
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To Ezra the priest, a scribe of the Law of the God of heaven:
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- Ezra 7:12 The original language of Ezra 7:12–26 is Aramaic.
- Ezra 7:12 Lit. and now
2 Chronicles 16:2-4
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2 Then Asa brought silver and gold from the treasuries of the house of the Lord and of the king’s house, and sent to Ben-Hadad king of Syria, who dwelt in Damascus, saying, 3 “Let there be a treaty between you and me, as there was between my father and your father. See, I have sent you silver and gold; come, break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, so that he will withdraw from me.”
4 So Ben-Hadad heeded King Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel. They attacked Ijon, Dan, Abel Maim, and all the storage cities of Naphtali.
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2 Kings 17:5-6
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Israel Carried Captive to Assyria(A)
5 Now (B)the king of Assyria went throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria and besieged it for three years. 6 (C)In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria and (D)carried Israel away to Assyria, (E)and placed them in Halah and by the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
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2 Kings 8:7-10
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Death of Ben-Hadad
7 Then Elisha went to Damascus, and (A)Ben-Hadad king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, “The man of God has come here.” 8 And the king said to (B)Hazael, (C)“Take a present in your hand, and go to meet the man of God, and (D)inquire of the Lord by him, saying, ‘Shall I recover from this disease?’ ” 9 So (E)Hazael went to meet him and took a present with him, of every good thing of Damascus, forty camel-loads; and he came and stood before him, and said, “Your son Ben-Hadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, ‘Shall I recover from this disease?’ ”
10 And Elisha said to him, “Go, say to him, ‘You shall certainly recover.’ However the Lord has shown me that (F)he will really die.”
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2 Kings 6:24-29
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Syria Besieges Samaria in Famine
24 And it happened after this that (A)Ben-Hadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria. 25 And there was a great (B)famine in Samaria; and indeed they besieged it until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and one-fourth of a [a]kab of dove droppings for five shekels of silver.
26 Then, 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 does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or from the winepress?” 28 Then the king said to her, “What is troubling you?”
And she answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’ 29 So (C)we boiled my son, and ate him. And I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him’; but she has hidden her son.”
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- 2 Kings 6:25 Approximately 1 pint
1 Kings 20:24
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24 So do this thing: Dismiss the kings, each from his position, and put captains in their [a]places;
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- 1 Kings 20:24 positions
1 Kings 20:16
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16 So they went out at noon. Meanwhile Ben-Hadad and the thirty-two kings helping him were (A)getting drunk at the command post.
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1 Kings 16:24
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24 And he bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver; then he built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, (A)Samaria,[a] after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill.
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- 1 Kings 16:24 Heb. Shomeron
1 Samuel 13:5
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5 Then the Philistines gathered together to fight with Israel, [a]thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen, and people (A)as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude. And they came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of (B)Beth Aven.
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- 1 Samuel 13:5 So with MT, LXX, Tg., Vg.; Syr. and some mss. of LXX three thousand
Judges 4:3
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3 And the children of Israel cried out to the Lord; for Jabin had nine hundred (A)chariots of iron, and for twenty years (B)he had harshly oppressed the children of Israel.
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Judges 1:7
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7 And Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to gather scraps under my table; (A)as I have done, so God has repaid me.” Then they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.
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Deuteronomy 28:52
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52 “They shall (A)besiege you at all your gates until your high and fortified walls, in which you trust, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you at all your gates throughout all your land which the Lord your God has given you.
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Deuteronomy 20:1
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Principles Governing Warfare
20 “When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see (A)horses and chariots and people more numerous than you, do not be (B)afraid of them; for the Lord your God is (C)with you, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.
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Leviticus 26:25
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25 And (A)I will bring a sword against you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant;
when you are gathered together within your cities (B)I will send pestilence among you;
and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
Exodus 14:7
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7 Also, he took (A)six hundred choice chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt with captains over every one of them.
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