1 Kings 20:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And they said to him, Ben-hadad says, Your silver and your gold are mine; and your wives and children are mine.

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  • Exod 15:9 : 9 Egypt said, I will go after them, I will overtake, I will make division of their goods: my desire will have its way with them; my sword will be uncovered, my hand will send destruction on them.
  • Isa 10:13-14 : 13 For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my knowledge, for I am wise: and I have taken away the limits of the peoples' lands, and the stores of their wealth have become mine; and I have made towns low in the dust, sending destruction on those living in them; 14 And I have put my hands on the wealth of the peoples, as on the place where a bird has put her eggs; and as a man may take the eggs from which a bird has gone, so I have taken all the earth for myself: and not a wing was moved, and not a mouth gave out a sound.

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  • 1 Kgs 20:4-7
    4 verses
    86%

    4 And the king of Israel sent him an answer saying, As you say, my lord king, I am yours with all I have.

    5 Then the representatives came back again, and said, These are the words of Ben-hadad: I sent to you saying, Give up to me your silver and your gold, your wives and your children;

    6 But I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, to make a search through your house and the houses of your people, and everything which is pleasing in your eyes they will take away in their hands.

    7 Then the king of Israel sent for all the responsible men of the land, and said, Now will you take note and see the evil purpose of this man: he sent for my wives and my children, my silver and my gold, and I did not keep them back.

  • 1 Kgs 20:1-2
    2 verses
    80%

    1 Now Ben-hadad, king of Aram, got all his army together, and thirty-two kings with him, and horses and carriages of war; he went up and made war on Samaria, shutting it in.

    2 And he sent representatives into the town to Ahab, king of Israel;

  • Hag 2:8
    72%

    8 The silver is mine and the gold is mine, says the Lord of armies.

  • 1 Kgs 20:9-10
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    9 So he said to the representatives of Ben-hadad, Say to my lord the king, All the orders you sent the first time I will do; but this thing I may not do. And the representatives went back with this answer.

    10 Then Ben-hadad sent to him, saying, May the gods' punishment be on me if there is enough of the dust of Samaria for all the people at my feet to take some in their hands.

  • Joel 3:5
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    5 And it will be that whoever makes his prayer to the name of the Lord will be kept safe: for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem some will be kept safe, as the Lord has said, and will be among the small band marked out by the Lord.

  • 1 Kgs 20:31-34
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    31 Then his servants said to him, It is said that the kings of Israel are full of mercy: let us then put on haircloth, and cords on our heads, and go to the king of Israel; it may be that he will give you your life.

    32 So they put on haircloth, and cords on their heads, and came to the king of Israel and said, Your servant Ben-hadad says, Let me now keep my life. And he said, Is he still living? he is my brother.

    33 Now the men took it as a sign, and quickly took up his words; and they said, Ben-hadad is your brother. Then he said, Go and get him. So Ben-hadad came out to him and he made him get up into his carriage.

    34 And Ben-hadad said to him, The towns my father took from your father I will give back; and you may make streets for yourself in Damascus as my father did in Samaria. And as for me, at the price of this agreement you will let me go. So he made an agreement with him and let him go.

  • 1 Kgs 15:18
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    18 Then Asa took all the silver and gold which was still stored in the Lord's house, and in the king's house, and sent them, in the care of his servants, to Ben-hadad, son of Tabrimmon, son of Rezon, king of Aram, at Damascus, saying,

  • 2 Chr 21:14
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    14 Now, truly, the Lord will send a great destruction on your people and your children and your wives and everything which is yours:

  • 1 Kgs 20:12-13
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    69%

    12 Now when this answer was given to Ben-hadad, he was drinking with the kings in the tents, and he said to his men, Take up your positions. So they put themselves in position for attacking the town.

    13 Then a prophet came up to Ahab, king of Israel, and said, The Lord says, Have you seen all this great army? See, I will give it into your hands today, and you will see that I am the Lord.

  • 1 Kgs 20:24-25
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    24 This is what you have to do: take away the kings from their positions, and put captains in their places;

    25 And get together another army like the one which came to destruction, horse for horse, and carriage for carriage; and let us make war on them in the lowlands, and certainly we will be stronger than they. And he gave ear to what they said, and did so.

  • 2 Sam 12:11
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    11 The Lord says, From those of your family I will send evil against you, and before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to your neighbour, and he will take your wives to his bed by the light of this sun.

  • Jer 17:3
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    3 I will give your wealth and all your stores to be taken away in war without a price, because of your sins in every part of your land.

  • 2 Chr 16:2
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    2 Then Asa took silver and gold out of the stores of the Lord's house and of the king's store-house, and sent to Ben-hadad, king of Aram, at Damascus, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 22:3
    68%

    3 And the king of Israel said to his servants, Do you not see that Ramoth-gilead is ours? and we are doing nothing to get it back from the hands of the king of Aram.

  • Exod 22:24
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    24 And in the heat of my wrath I will put you to death with the sword, so that your wives will be widows and your children without fathers.

  • Nah 2:9
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    9 But Nineveh is like a pool of water whose waters are flowing away; Keep your place, they say; but no one is turning back.

  • Num 18:14
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    14 Everything given by oath to the Lord in Israel is to be yours.

  • 1 Kgs 20:17-18
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    68%

    17 And the servants of the chiefs who were over the divisions of the land went forward first; and when Ben-hadad sent out, they gave him the news, saying, Men have come out from Samaria.

    18 And he said, If they have come out for peace, take them living, and if they have come out for war, take them living.

  • Jer 15:13
    67%

    13 I will give your wealth and your stores to your attackers, without a price, because of all your sins, even in every part of your land.

  • 2 Kgs 18:15
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    15 So Hezekiah gave him all the silver in the house of the Lord, and in the king's store-house.

  • Deut 20:14
    67%

    14 But the women and the children and the cattle and everything in the town and all its wealth, you may take for yourselves: the wealth of your haters, which the Lord your God has given you, will be your food.

  • Num 18:12
    67%

    12 All the best of the oil and the wine and the grain, the first-fruits of them which they give to the Lord, to you have I given them.

  • 1 Chr 29:3
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    3 And because this house of God is dear to me, I give my private store of gold and silver to the house of my God, in addition to all I have got ready for the holy house;

  • 1 Kgs 21:2-3
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    2 And Ahab said to Naboth, Give me your vine-garden so that I may have it for a garden of sweet plants, for it is near my house; and let me give you a better vine-garden in exchange, or, if it seems good to you, let me give you its value in money.

    3 But Naboth said to Ahab, By the Lord, far be it from me to give you the heritage of my fathers.

  • 1 Kgs 2:15
    67%

    15 And he said, You saw how the kingdom was mine, and all Israel had the idea that I would be their king; but now the kingdom is turned about, and has become my brother's, for it was given to him by the Lord.

  • 1 Kgs 20:39
    66%

    39 And when the king went by, crying out to him he said, Your servant went out into the fight; and a man came out to me with another man and said, Keep this man: if by any chance he gets away, your life will be the price of his life, or you will have to give a talent of silver in payment.

  • Isa 2:7
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    7 And their land is full of silver and gold, and there is no end to their stores; their land is full of horses, and there is no end to their carriages.

  • 1 Sam 8:14
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    14 He will take your fields and your vine-gardens and your olive-gardens, all the best of them, and give them to his servants.

  • Ezra 8:28
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    28 And I said to them, You are holy to the Lord and the vessels are holy: and the silver and the gold are an offering freely given to the Lord, the God of your fathers.

  • 1 Kgs 21:20
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    20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you come face to face with me, O my hater? And he said, I have come to you because you have given yourself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord.

  • 2 Sam 12:8
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    8 I gave you your master's daughter and your master's wives for yourself, and I gave you the daughters of Israel and Judah; and if that had not been enough, I would have given you such and such things.

  • 2 Chr 21:17
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    17 And they came up against Judah, forcing a way into it, and took away all the goods in the king's house, as well as his sons and his wives; so that he had no son but only Jehoahaz, the youngest.

  • 1 Sam 8:16
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    16 He will take your men-servants and your servant-girls, and the best of your oxen and your asses and put them to his work.

  • 2 Chr 25:24
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    24 And he took all the gold and silver and all the vessels which were in the house of the Lord, under the care of Obed-edom, and all the wealth from the king's house, as well as those whose lives would be the price of broken faith, and went back to Samaria.

  • Josh 6:19
    66%

    19 But all the silver and gold and the vessels of brass and iron are holy to the Lord: they are to come into the store-house of the Lord.

  • Deut 3:19
    66%

    19 But your wives and your little ones and your cattle (for it is clear that you have much cattle) may go on living in the towns I have given you;