1 Kings 20:3

World English Bible (2000)

'Your silver and your gold is mine. Your wives also and your children, even the best, are mine.'"

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 15:9 : 9 The enemy said, 'I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the spoil. My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.'
  • Isa 10:13-14 : 13 For he has said, "By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers. 14 My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, have I gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped."

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  • 1 Kgs 20:4-7
    4 verses
    86%

    4The king of Israel answered, "It is according to your saying, my lord, O king. I am yours, and all that I have."

    5The messengers came again, and said, "Ben Hadad says, 'I sent indeed to you, saying, "You shall deliver me your silver, and your gold, and your wives, and your children;

    6but I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, and they shall search your house, and the houses of your servants; and it shall be, that whatever is pleasant in your eyes, they shall put it in their hand, and take it away."'"

    7Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, "Please notice how this man seeks mischief; for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I didn't deny him."

  • 1 Kgs 20:1-2
    2 verses
    80%

    1Ben Hadad the king of Syria gathered all his army together; and there were thirty-two kings with him, and horses and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it.

    2He sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel, into the city, and said to him, "Thus says Ben Hadad,

  • Hag 2:8
    72%

    8The silver is mine, and the gold is mine,' says Yahweh of Armies.

  • 1 Kgs 20:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9Therefore 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.'" The messengers departed, and brought him back the message.

    10Ben Hadad sent to him, and said, "The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people who follow me."

  • Joel 3:5
    72%

    5Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,

  • 1 Kgs 20:31-34
    4 verses
    71%

    31His servants said to him, "See now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Please let us put sackcloth on our bodies, and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel. Maybe he will save your life."

    32So they put sackcloth on their bodies and ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, "Your servant Ben Hadad says, 'Please let me live.'" He said, "Is he still alive? He is my brother."

    33Now the men observed diligently, and hurried to take this phrase; and they said, "Your brother Ben Hadad." Then he said, "Go, bring him." Then Ben Hadad came out to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.

    34Ben Hadad said to him, "The cities which my father took from your father I will restore. You shall make streets for yourself in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria." "I," said Ahab, "will let you go with this covenant." So he made a covenant with him, and let him go.

  • 1 Kgs 15:18
    70%

    18Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants; and king Asa sent them to Ben Hadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying,

  • 2 Chr 21:14
    70%

    14behold, Yahweh will strike with a great plague your people, and your children, and your wives, and all your substance;

  • 1 Kgs 20:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

    12It happened, when Ben Hadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings, in the pavilions, that he said to his servants, "Prepare to attack!" They prepared to attack the city.

    13Behold, a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel, and said, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will deliver it into your hand this day; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.'"

  • 1 Kgs 20:24-25
    2 verses
    69%

    24Do this thing: take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their place.

    25Muster an army, like the army that you have lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot. We will fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than them." He listened to their voice, and did so.

  • 2 Sam 12:11
    69%

    11"This is what Yahweh says: 'Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

  • Jer 17:3
    69%

    3My mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your treasures for a spoil, [and] your high places, because of sin, throughout all your borders.

  • 2 Chr 16:2
    69%

    2Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of Yahweh and of the king's house, and sent to Ben Hadad king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 22:3
    68%

    3The king of Israel said to his servants, "You know that Ramoth Gilead is ours, and we are still, and don't take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?"

  • Exod 22:24
    68%

    24and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

  • Nah 2:9
    68%

    9Take the spoil of silver. Take the spoil of gold, for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.

  • Num 18:14
    68%

    14"Everything devoted in Israel shall be yours.

  • 1 Kgs 20:17-18
    2 verses
    68%

    17The young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben Hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, "Men are coming out from Samaria."

    18He said, "If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive."

  • Jer 15:13
    67%

    13Your substance and your treasures will I give for a spoil without price, and that for all your sins, even in all your borders.

  • 2 Kgs 18:15
    67%

    15Hezekiah gave [him] all the silver that was found in the house of Yahweh, and in the treasures of the king's house.

  • Deut 20:14
    67%

    14but the women, and the little ones, and the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its spoil, you shall take for a prey to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.

  • Num 18:12
    67%

    12"All the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give to Yahweh, to you have I given them.

  • 1 Chr 29:3
    67%

    3In addition, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, since I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,

  • 1 Kgs 21:2-3
    2 verses
    67%

    2Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, "Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near to my house; and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it. Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its worth in money."

    3Naboth said to Ahab, "May Yahweh forbid me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you!"

  • 1 Kgs 2:15
    67%

    15He said, "You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign. However the kingdom is turned around, and has become my brother's; for it was his from Yahweh.

  • 1 Kgs 20:39
    66%

    39As the king passed by, he cried to the king; and he said, "Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man to me, and said, 'Guard this man! If by any means he be missing, then your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.'

  • Isa 2:7
    66%

    7Their land is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures. Their land also is full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots.

  • 1 Sam 8:14
    66%

    14He will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive groves, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.

  • Ezra 8:28
    66%

    28I said to them, "You are holy to Yahweh, and the vessels are holy; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to Yahweh, the God of your fathers.

  • 1 Kgs 21:20
    66%

    20Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, my enemy?" He answered, "I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh.

  • 2 Sam 12:8
    66%

    8I gave you your master's house, and your master's wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that would have been too little, I would have added to you many more such things.

  • 2 Chr 21:17
    66%

    17and they came up against Judah, and broke into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, except Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.

  • 1 Sam 8:16
    66%

    16He will take your male servants, and your female servants, and your best young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.

  • 2 Chr 25:24
    66%

    24[He took] all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with Obed-Edom, and the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.

  • Josh 6:19
    66%

    19But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are holy to Yahweh. They shall come into Yahweh's treasury."

  • Deut 3:19
    66%

    19But your wives, and your little ones, and your livestock, (I know that you have much livestock), shall live in your cities which I have given you,