²³ Come now, make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.

⁸ Come now, make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them. ⁹ How then can you repulse ^(A)a single captain among the least of my master's servants, when ^(B)you trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

^13 (A)For he says:

² And he said in the presence of his brothers and of the army of ^(A)Samaria, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore it for themselves?^[a] Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?” ^3 (B)Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, “Yes, what they are building—^(C)if a fox goes up on it he will break down their stone wall!” ^4 (D)Hear, O our God, for we are despised. ^(E)Turn back their taunt on their own heads and give them up to be plundered in a land where they are captives. ^5 (F)Do not cover their guilt, and let not their sin be blotted out from your sight, for they have provoked you to anger in the presence of the builders.

¹⁸ He said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive. Or if they have come out for war, take them alive.”

¹⁰ Ben-hadad sent to him and said, ^(A)“The gods do so to me and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people ^(B)who follow me.”

⁴⁴ The Philistine said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh ^(A)to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the field.”

⁴² And when the Philistine looked and saw David, he disdained him, for he was but a youth, ^(A)ruddy and handsome in appearance.