1 Kings 20:16-18

Christian Standard Bible

¹⁶ They marched out at noon while Ben-hadad and the thirty-two kings^(A) who were helping him were getting drunk in their quarters. ¹⁷ The young men of the provincial leaders marched out first. Then Ben-hadad sent out scouts, and they reported to him, saying, “Men are marching out of Samaria.”^(B)

¹⁸ So he said, “If they have marched out in peace,^(C) take them alive, and if they have marched out for battle, take them alive.”