1 Reis 20 - Bíblia Online

Ben-Hadade, rei da Síria, ajuntou todo o seu exército; e havia com ele trinta e dois reis, e cavalos e carros. Subindo, sitiou a Samaria, e pelejou contra ela. 
Enviou mensageiros a Acabe, rei de Israel, na cidade, e disse-lhe: Assim diz Ben-Hadade: 
A tua prata e o teu ouro é meu; também o melhor de tuas mulheres e filhos é meu. 
O rei de Israel respondeu: É conforme a tua palavra, ó rei meu senhor; eu sou teu, e tudo o que tenho. 
Voltaram os mensageiros e disseram: Assim diz Ben-Hadade: Enviei-te, na verdade, mensageiros que dissessem: Tu me hás de entregar a tua prata, e o teu ouro, e tuas mulheres, e teus filhos. 
Amanhã a estas horas te enviarei os meus servos, que esquadrinharão a tua casa, e as casas dos teus servos; meterão as mãos em tudo o que tens de precioso, e o levarão. 
O rei de Israel chamou todos os anciãos da terra e disse-lhes: Notai e vede como este homem procura o mal; pois me mandou pedir minhas mulheres, meus filhos, a minha prata e o meu ouro; e não lhos neguei a ele. 
Todos os anciãos e todo o povo lhe disseram: Não ouças nem consintas. 
Pelo que disse aos mensageiros de Ben-Hadade: Dizei ao rei meu senhor: Farei tudo o que mandaste pedir no princípio ao teu servo; mas esta cousa não a posso fazer. Foram-se os mensageiros, e referiram-lhe a resposta. 
Ben-Hadade tornou a enviar-lhe mensageiros, e disse-lhe: Assim me façam os deuses e ainda mais, se o pó de Samaria bastar para encher as mãos de todo o povo que me segue. 
O rei de Israel respondeu: Dizei-lhe: Não se vanglorie quem veste as armas como quem as depõe. 
Quando Ben-Hadade ouviu esta resposta, estando bebendo com os reis nas tendas, disse aos seus servos: Ponde-vos de prontidão. Puseram-se de prontidão contra a cidade. 
Eis que um profeta, chegando-se a Acabe, rei de Israel, lhe disse: Assim diz Jeová: Vês toda esta grande multidão? pois hoje a entregarei nas tuas mãos, e saberás que eu sou Jeová. 
Perguntou Acabe: Por quem? Ele respondeu: Assim diz Jeová: Pelos servos dos príncipes das províncias. Acabe perguntou: Quem começará a batalha? Respondeu ele: Tu. 
Então fez revista dos servos dos príncipes das províncias, e eram duzentos e trinta e dois; depois deles fez revista de todo o povo, a saber, dos filhos de Israel, e eram sete mil. 
Saíram ao meio dia. Ben-Hadade, porém, estava bebendo e embriagando-se nas tendas com os trinta e dois reis que o ajudavam. 
Saíram primeiro os servos dos príncipes das províncias; e Ben-Hadade enviou espias, que lhe vieram dizer: São homens que saíram de Samaria. 
Ele disse: Ou eles venham tratar de paz, tomai-os vivos; ou venham pelejar, tomai-os vivos. 
Os servos dos príncipes das províncias, e o exército que os seguia, saíram da cidade. 
Eles feriram, cada um ao que se lhe opunha; e os siros fugiram, e Israel os perseguiu. Ben-Hadade, rei da Síria, escapou a cavalo com cavaleiros. 
Saiu o rei de Israel, e feriu os cavalos e os carros, fazendo nos siros grande matança. 
Então o profeta se chegou ao rei de Israel, e lhe disse: Vai, fortifica- te, considera e vê o que fazes; porque daqui há um ano subirá o rei da Síria contra ti. 
Os servos do rei da Síria disseram-lhe: O seu Deus é Deus de montes: por isso eram mais fortes do que nós; mas pelejemos contra eles em planície, e com certeza seremos mais fortes do que eles. 
Faze isto: tira os reis, cada um do seu lugar, e substitui-os por capitães, 
e forma um exército igual em número ao que perdeste, cavalo por cavalo, e carro por carro. Pelejaremos contra eles em planície, e com certeza seremos mais fortes do que eles. Ele deu ouvidos ao que disseram, e assim o fez. 
Passado um ano, fez Ben-Hadade revista dos siros, e subiu a Afeque para pelejar contra Israel. 
Também dos filhos de Israel se fez revista, e foram providos de víveres, e marcharam contra eles. Os filhos de Israel acamparam-se em frente deles, como dois pequenos rebanhos de cabritos; os siros, porém, enchiam a terra. 
Chegou um homem de Deus, e disse ao rei de Israel: Assim diz Jeová: Porque os Siros disseram: Jeová é deus de montes, e não é deus de vales, portanto entregarei toda esta grande multidão nas tuas mãos, e sabereis que eu sou Jeová. 
Estiveram acampados sete dias uns em frente de outros. Ao sétimo dia deu-se batalha, e os filhos de Israel num dia mataram dos Siros cerca de cem mil homens de pé. 
Os restantes, porém, fugiram para Afeque, e entraram na cidade; e caiu o muro sobre vinte e sete mil homens que restavam. Ben-Hadade fugiu, entrou na cidade e meteu-se numa câmara interior. 
Disseram-lhe os servos: Eis que temos ouvido dizer que os reis da casa de Israel são clementes; ponhamos, pois, sacos sobre os lombos, e cordas à roda das cabeças, e saiamos a ter com o rei de Israel; talvez ele te salve a vida. 
Cingiram-se de sacos pelos lombos, puseram cordas à roda das cabeças e, indo ter com o rei de Israel, disseram: Diz o teu servo Ben-Hadade: Concede-me a vida. O rei de Israel disse: Vive ele ainda? ele é meu irmão. 
Ora os homens observavam atenciosamente, e logo se apoderaram da expressão que tinha usado; e disseram: Teu irmão Ben-Hadade! Ele disse: Ide, trazei-mo. Ben-Hadade saiu a ter com ele; e ele o fez subir ao carro. 
Ben-Hadade disse-lhe: Restituirei a ti as cidades que meu pai tomou a teu pai; e farás para ti ruas em Damasco, como meu pai as fez em Samaria. Eu, disse Acabe, feita esta aliança, te deixarei ir. Fez a aliança com ele, e o deixou ir. 
Ora, certo homem dentre os filhos dos profetas disse, por ordem de Jeová, ao seu companheiro: Fere-me, te peço. O homem recusou feri-lo. 
Ele lhe disse: Porquanto não obedeceste a voz de Jeová, eis que, em te apartando de mim, te matará um leão. Logo que dele se apartara, um leão o encontrou e matou. 
Tendo ele encontrado outro homem, disse-lhe: Fere-me, te peço. O homem o bateu e feriu. 
Partiu o profeta, ficou esperando ao rei no caminho e disfarçou-se, cobrindo os olhos com o seu turbante. 
Ao passar o rei, gritou e disse: O teu servo estava no meio da peleja; eis um homem, voltando-se, me trouxe outro homem, e disse: Guarda-me este homem; se ele vier de qualquer maneira a faltar, a tua vida responderá pela vida dele, ou senão pagarás um talento de prata. 
Estando o teu servo ocupado na peleja de uma e outra parte, ele desapareceu. Respondeu-lhe o rei de Israel: Esta será a tua sentença; tu mesmo a pronunciaste. 
Ele se apressou, e tirou de sobre os olhos o turbante; e o rei de Israel reconheceu que era um dos profetas. 
Ele lhe disse: Assim diz Jeová: Porquanto deixaste escapar da tua mão o homem que eu havia votado à destruição, portanto a tua vida responderá pela vida dele, e o teu povo pelo povo dele. 
Foi-se o rei de Israel, desgostoso e indignado, para sua casa, e veio para Samaria. 

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. 
And he sent representatives into the town to Ahab, king of Israel; 
And they said to him, Ben-hadad says, Your silver and your gold are mine; and your wives and children are mine. 
And the king of Israel sent him an answer saying, As you say, my lord king, I am yours with all I have. 
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; 
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. 
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. 
And all the responsible men and the people said to him, Do not give attention to him or do what he says. 
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. 
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. 
And the king of Israel said in answer, Say to him, The time for loud talk is not when a man is putting on his arms, but when he is taking them off. 
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. 
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. 
And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, The Lord says, By the servants of the chiefs who are over the divisions of the land. Then he said, By whom is the fighting to be started? And he made answer, By you. 
Then he got together the servants of all the chiefs who were over the divisions of the land, two hundred and thirty-two of them; and after them, he got together all the people, all the children of Israel, seven thousand. 
And in the middle of the day they went out. But Ben-hadad was drinking in the tents with the thirty-two kings who were helping him. 
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. 
And he said, If they have come out for peace, take them living, and if they have come out for war, take them living. 
So the servants of the chiefs of the divisions of the land went out of the town, with the army coming after them. 
And every one of them put his man to death, and the Aramaeans went in flight with Israel after them; and Ben-hadad, king of Aram, got away safely on a horse with his horsemen. 
And the king of Israel went out and took the horses and the war-carriages, and made great destruction among the Aramaeans. 
Then the prophet came up to the king of Israel, and said to him, Now make yourself strong, and take care what you do, or a year from now the king of Aram will come up against you again. 
Then the king of Aram's servants said to him, Their god is a god of the hills; that is why they were stronger than we: but if we make an attack on them in the lowlands, we will certainly be stronger than they. 
This is what you have to do: take away the kings from their positions, and put captains in their places; 
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. 
So, a year later, Ben-hadad got the Aramaeans together and went up to Aphek to make war on Israel. 
And the children of Israel got themselves together, and food was made ready and they went against them; the tents of the children of Israel were like two little flocks of goats before them, but all the country was full of the Aramaeans. 
And a man of God came up and said to the king of Israel, The Lord says, Because the Aramaeans have said, The Lord is a god of the hills and not of the valleys; I will give all this great army into your hands, and you will see that I am the Lord. 
Now the two armies kept their positions facing one another for seven days. And on the seventh day the fight was started; and the children of Israel put to the sword a hundred thousand Aramaean footmen in one day. 
But the rest went in flight to Aphek, into the town, where a wall came down on the twenty-seven thousand who were still living. And Ben-hadad went in flight into the town, into an inner room. 
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. 
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. 
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. 
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. 
And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his neighbour by the word of the Lord, Give me a wound. But the man would not. 
Then he said to him, Because you have not given ear to the voice of the Lord, straight away when you have gone from me a lion will put you to death. And when he had gone, straight away a lion came rushing at him and put him to death. 
Then he came across another man, and said, Give me a wound. And the man gave him a blow wounding him. 
So the prophet went away, and pulling his head-band over his eyes to keep his face covered, took his place by the road waiting for the king. 
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. 
But while your servant was turning this way and that, he was gone. Then the king of Israel said to him, You are responsible; you have given the decision against yourself. 
Then he quickly took the head-band from his eyes; and the king of Israel saw that he was one of the prophets. 
And he said to him, These are the words of the Lord: Because you have let go from your hands the man whom I had put to the curse, your life will be taken for his life, and your people for his people. 
Then the king of Israel went back to his house, bitter and angry, and came to Samaria. 

1 Reis 21

Ben-Hadade, rei da Síria, ajuntou todo o seu exército; e havia com ele trinta e dois reis, e cavalos e carros. Subindo, sitiou a Samaria, e pelejou contra ela. 
Enviou mensageiros a Acabe, rei de Israel, na cidade, e disse-lhe: Assim diz Ben-Hadade: 
A tua prata e o teu ouro é meu; também o melhor de tuas mulheres e filhos é meu. 
O rei de Israel respondeu: É conforme a tua palavra, ó rei meu senhor; eu sou teu, e tudo o que tenho. 
Voltaram os mensageiros e disseram: Assim diz Ben-Hadade: Enviei-te, na verdade, mensageiros que dissessem: Tu me hás de entregar a tua prata, e o teu ouro, e tuas mulheres, e teus filhos. 
Amanhã a estas horas te enviarei os meus servos, que esquadrinharão a tua casa, e as casas dos teus servos; meterão as mãos em tudo o que tens de precioso, e o levarão. 
O rei de Israel chamou todos os anciãos da terra e disse-lhes: Notai e vede como este homem procura o mal; pois me mandou pedir minhas mulheres, meus filhos, a minha prata e o meu ouro; e não lhos neguei a ele. 
Todos os anciãos e todo o povo lhe disseram: Não ouças nem consintas. 
Pelo que disse aos mensageiros de Ben-Hadade: Dizei ao rei meu senhor: Farei tudo o que mandaste pedir no princípio ao teu servo; mas esta cousa não a posso fazer. Foram-se os mensageiros, e referiram-lhe a resposta. 
Ben-Hadade tornou a enviar-lhe mensageiros, e disse-lhe: Assim me façam os deuses e ainda mais, se o pó de Samaria bastar para encher as mãos de todo o povo que me segue. 
O rei de Israel respondeu: Dizei-lhe: Não se vanglorie quem veste as armas como quem as depõe. 
Quando Ben-Hadade ouviu esta resposta, estando bebendo com os reis nas tendas, disse aos seus servos: Ponde-vos de prontidão. Puseram-se de prontidão contra a cidade. 
Eis que um profeta, chegando-se a Acabe, rei de Israel, lhe disse: Assim diz Jeová: Vês toda esta grande multidão? pois hoje a entregarei nas tuas mãos, e saberás que eu sou Jeová. 
Perguntou Acabe: Por quem? Ele respondeu: Assim diz Jeová: Pelos servos dos príncipes das províncias. Acabe perguntou: Quem começará a batalha? Respondeu ele: Tu. 
Então fez revista dos servos dos príncipes das províncias, e eram duzentos e trinta e dois; depois deles fez revista de todo o povo, a saber, dos filhos de Israel, e eram sete mil. 
Saíram ao meio dia. Ben-Hadade, porém, estava bebendo e embriagando-se nas tendas com os trinta e dois reis que o ajudavam. 
Saíram primeiro os servos dos príncipes das províncias; e Ben-Hadade enviou espias, que lhe vieram dizer: São homens que saíram de Samaria. 
Ele disse: Ou eles venham tratar de paz, tomai-os vivos; ou venham pelejar, tomai-os vivos. 
Os servos dos príncipes das províncias, e o exército que os seguia, saíram da cidade. 
Eles feriram, cada um ao que se lhe opunha; e os siros fugiram, e Israel os perseguiu. Ben-Hadade, rei da Síria, escapou a cavalo com cavaleiros. 
Saiu o rei de Israel, e feriu os cavalos e os carros, fazendo nos siros grande matança. 
Então o profeta se chegou ao rei de Israel, e lhe disse: Vai, fortifica- te, considera e vê o que fazes; porque daqui há um ano subirá o rei da Síria contra ti. 
Os servos do rei da Síria disseram-lhe: O seu Deus é Deus de montes: por isso eram mais fortes do que nós; mas pelejemos contra eles em planície, e com certeza seremos mais fortes do que eles. 
Faze isto: tira os reis, cada um do seu lugar, e substitui-os por capitães, 
e forma um exército igual em número ao que perdeste, cavalo por cavalo, e carro por carro. Pelejaremos contra eles em planície, e com certeza seremos mais fortes do que eles. Ele deu ouvidos ao que disseram, e assim o fez. 
Passado um ano, fez Ben-Hadade revista dos siros, e subiu a Afeque para pelejar contra Israel. 
Também dos filhos de Israel se fez revista, e foram providos de víveres, e marcharam contra eles. Os filhos de Israel acamparam-se em frente deles, como dois pequenos rebanhos de cabritos; os siros, porém, enchiam a terra. 
Chegou um homem de Deus, e disse ao rei de Israel: Assim diz Jeová: Porque os Siros disseram: Jeová é deus de montes, e não é deus de vales, portanto entregarei toda esta grande multidão nas tuas mãos, e sabereis que eu sou Jeová. 
Estiveram acampados sete dias uns em frente de outros. Ao sétimo dia deu-se batalha, e os filhos de Israel num dia mataram dos Siros cerca de cem mil homens de pé. 
Os restantes, porém, fugiram para Afeque, e entraram na cidade; e caiu o muro sobre vinte e sete mil homens que restavam. Ben-Hadade fugiu, entrou na cidade e meteu-se numa câmara interior. 
Disseram-lhe os servos: Eis que temos ouvido dizer que os reis da casa de Israel são clementes; ponhamos, pois, sacos sobre os lombos, e cordas à roda das cabeças, e saiamos a ter com o rei de Israel; talvez ele te salve a vida. 
Cingiram-se de sacos pelos lombos, puseram cordas à roda das cabeças e, indo ter com o rei de Israel, disseram: Diz o teu servo Ben-Hadade: Concede-me a vida. O rei de Israel disse: Vive ele ainda? ele é meu irmão. 
Ora os homens observavam atenciosamente, e logo se apoderaram da expressão que tinha usado; e disseram: Teu irmão Ben-Hadade! Ele disse: Ide, trazei-mo. Ben-Hadade saiu a ter com ele; e ele o fez subir ao carro. 
Ben-Hadade disse-lhe: Restituirei a ti as cidades que meu pai tomou a teu pai; e farás para ti ruas em Damasco, como meu pai as fez em Samaria. Eu, disse Acabe, feita esta aliança, te deixarei ir. Fez a aliança com ele, e o deixou ir. 
Ora, certo homem dentre os filhos dos profetas disse, por ordem de Jeová, ao seu companheiro: Fere-me, te peço. O homem recusou feri-lo. 
Ele lhe disse: Porquanto não obedeceste a voz de Jeová, eis que, em te apartando de mim, te matará um leão. Logo que dele se apartara, um leão o encontrou e matou. 
Tendo ele encontrado outro homem, disse-lhe: Fere-me, te peço. O homem o bateu e feriu. 
Partiu o profeta, ficou esperando ao rei no caminho e disfarçou-se, cobrindo os olhos com o seu turbante. 
Ao passar o rei, gritou e disse: O teu servo estava no meio da peleja; eis um homem, voltando-se, me trouxe outro homem, e disse: Guarda-me este homem; se ele vier de qualquer maneira a faltar, a tua vida responderá pela vida dele, ou senão pagarás um talento de prata. 
Estando o teu servo ocupado na peleja de uma e outra parte, ele desapareceu. Respondeu-lhe o rei de Israel: Esta será a tua sentença; tu mesmo a pronunciaste. 
Ele se apressou, e tirou de sobre os olhos o turbante; e o rei de Israel reconheceu que era um dos profetas. 
Ele lhe disse: Assim diz Jeová: Porquanto deixaste escapar da tua mão o homem que eu havia votado à destruição, portanto a tua vida responderá pela vida dele, e o teu povo pelo povo dele. 
Foi-se o rei de Israel, desgostoso e indignado, para sua casa, e veio para Samaria. 

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. 
And he sent representatives into the town to Ahab, king of Israel; 
And they said to him, Ben-hadad says, Your silver and your gold are mine; and your wives and children are mine. 
And the king of Israel sent him an answer saying, As you say, my lord king, I am yours with all I have. 
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; 
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. 
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. 
And all the responsible men and the people said to him, Do not give attention to him or do what he says. 
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. 
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. 
And the king of Israel said in answer, Say to him, The time for loud talk is not when a man is putting on his arms, but when he is taking them off. 
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. 
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. 
And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, The Lord says, By the servants of the chiefs who are over the divisions of the land. Then he said, By whom is the fighting to be started? And he made answer, By you. 
Then he got together the servants of all the chiefs who were over the divisions of the land, two hundred and thirty-two of them; and after them, he got together all the people, all the children of Israel, seven thousand. 
And in the middle of the day they went out. But Ben-hadad was drinking in the tents with the thirty-two kings who were helping him. 
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. 
And he said, If they have come out for peace, take them living, and if they have come out for war, take them living. 
So the servants of the chiefs of the divisions of the land went out of the town, with the army coming after them. 
And every one of them put his man to death, and the Aramaeans went in flight with Israel after them; and Ben-hadad, king of Aram, got away safely on a horse with his horsemen. 
And the king of Israel went out and took the horses and the war-carriages, and made great destruction among the Aramaeans. 
Then the prophet came up to the king of Israel, and said to him, Now make yourself strong, and take care what you do, or a year from now the king of Aram will come up against you again. 
Then the king of Aram's servants said to him, Their god is a god of the hills; that is why they were stronger than we: but if we make an attack on them in the lowlands, we will certainly be stronger than they. 
This is what you have to do: take away the kings from their positions, and put captains in their places; 
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. 
So, a year later, Ben-hadad got the Aramaeans together and went up to Aphek to make war on Israel. 
And the children of Israel got themselves together, and food was made ready and they went against them; the tents of the children of Israel were like two little flocks of goats before them, but all the country was full of the Aramaeans. 
And a man of God came up and said to the king of Israel, The Lord says, Because the Aramaeans have said, The Lord is a god of the hills and not of the valleys; I will give all this great army into your hands, and you will see that I am the Lord. 
Now the two armies kept their positions facing one another for seven days. And on the seventh day the fight was started; and the children of Israel put to the sword a hundred thousand Aramaean footmen in one day. 
But the rest went in flight to Aphek, into the town, where a wall came down on the twenty-seven thousand who were still living. And Ben-hadad went in flight into the town, into an inner room. 
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. 
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. 
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. 
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. 
And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his neighbour by the word of the Lord, Give me a wound. But the man would not. 
Then he said to him, Because you have not given ear to the voice of the Lord, straight away when you have gone from me a lion will put you to death. And when he had gone, straight away a lion came rushing at him and put him to death. 
Then he came across another man, and said, Give me a wound. And the man gave him a blow wounding him. 
So the prophet went away, and pulling his head-band over his eyes to keep his face covered, took his place by the road waiting for the king. 
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. 
But while your servant was turning this way and that, he was gone. Then the king of Israel said to him, You are responsible; you have given the decision against yourself. 
Then he quickly took the head-band from his eyes; and the king of Israel saw that he was one of the prophets. 
And he said to him, These are the words of the Lord: Because you have let go from your hands the man whom I had put to the curse, your life will be taken for his life, and your people for his people. 
Then the king of Israel went back to his house, bitter and angry, and came to Samaria. 

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