1 Kings 20:9
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So he said to the messengers of Ben-hadad, "Tell my lord the king, 'All that you sent for to your servant at the first I will do, but this thing I cannot do.'" And the messengers departed and brought him word again. (NASB ©1995)

1 Kings 20:8 All the elders and all the people said to him, "Do not listen or consent."

1 Kings 20:10 Ben-hadad sent to him and said, "May the gods do so to me and more also, if the dust of Samaria will suffice for handfuls for all the people who follow me." (NASB ©1995)


Wherefore he said unto the messengers of Benhadad, Tell my lord the king, All that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first I will do: but this thing I may not do. And the messengers departed, and brought him word again.

Let not him, etc. This was no doubt a proverbial mode of expression. Jonathan renders it: `Let not him who girds himself, and goes down to battle, boast as one who has conquered and returned from it.' 1Sa 14:6,12,13 17:44-47 Pr 27:1 Ec 9:11 Isa 10:15,16 Mt 26:33-35 26:75

harness The word harness is an obsolete word for armour, derived from the French harnois Ex 13:18

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