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## 1 Kings 20:22-34 in Context (Verses 19–37 KJV)
 
 [19 ](/kjv/1-kings/20/19) So these young men of the princes of the provinces came out of the city, and the army which followed them.
 
 [20 ](/kjv/1-kings/20/20) And they slew every one his man: and the Syrians fled; and Israel pursued them: and Ben-hadad the king of Syria escaped on an horse with the horsemen.
 
 [21 ](/kjv/1-kings/20/21) And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.
 
 [22 ](/kjv/1-kings/20/22) ¶ And the prophet came to the king of Israel, and said unto him, Go, strengthen thyself, and mark, and see what thou doest: for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against thee.
 
 [23 ](/kjv/1-kings/20/23) And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their gods *are* gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.
 
 [24 ](/kjv/1-kings/20/24) And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their rooms:
 
 [25 ](/kjv/1-kings/20/25) And number thee an army, like the army that thou hast lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot: and we will fight against them in the plain, *and* surely we shall be stronger than they. And he hearkened unto their voice, and did so.*
 
 [26 ](/kjv/1-kings/20/26) And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Ben-hadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.*
 
 [27 ](/kjv/1-kings/20/27) And the children of Israel were numbered, and were all present, and went against them: and the children of Israel pitched before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country.*
 
 [28 ](/kjv/1-kings/20/28) ¶ And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the Syrians have said, The LORD *is* God of the hills, but he *is* not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that I *am* the LORD.
 
 [29 ](/kjv/1-kings/20/29) And they pitched one over against the other seven days. And *so* it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day.
 
 [30 ](/kjv/1-kings/20/30) But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and *there* a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men *that were* left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.*
 
 [31 ](/kjv/1-kings/20/31) ¶ And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel *are* merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.
 
 [32 ](/kjv/1-kings/20/32) So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and *put* ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Ben-hadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, *Is* he yet alive? he *is* my brother.
 
 [33 ](/kjv/1-kings/20/33) Now the men did diligently observe whether *any thing would come* from him, and did hastily catch *it:* and they said, Thy brother Ben-hadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then Ben-hadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.
 
 [34 ](/kjv/1-kings/20/34) And *Ben-hadad* said unto him, The cities, which my father took from thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then *said Ahab*, I will send thee away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away.*
 
 [35 ](/kjv/1-kings/20/35) ¶ And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his neighbour in the word of the LORD, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man refused to smite him.
 
 [36 ](/kjv/1-kings/20/36) Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.
 
 [37 ](/kjv/1-kings/20/37) Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man smote him, so that in smiting he wounded *him*.*
 
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