1 Kings 20:3
Good News Translation
you surrender to him your silver and gold, your women and the strongest of your children."

New Revised Standard Version
Your silver and gold are mine; your fairest wives and children also are mine.”

Contemporary English Version
"Ahab, give me your silver and gold, your wives, and your strongest sons!"

New American Bible
and said to him, “This is Ben-hadad’s message: ‘Your silver and gold are mine, and your wives and your fine children are mine.’ ”

Douay-Rheims Bible
He said: Thus saith Benadad: Thy silver and thy gold is mine: and thy wives and thy goodliest children are mine.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He said: Thus saith Benadad: Thy silver and thy gold is mine: and thy wives and thy goodliest children are mine.

Exodus 15:9 The enemy said: I will pursue and overtake, I will divide the spoils, my soul shall have its fill: I will draw my sword, my hand shall slay them.

Isaiah 10:13,14 For he hath said: By the strength of my own hand I have done it, and by my own wisdom I have understood: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have taken the spoils of the princes, and as a mighty man hath pulled down them that sat on high. . . .

Context
Ben-Hadad Attacks Samaria
2And sending messengers to Achab, king of Israel, into the city, 3He said: Thus saith Benadad: Thy silver and thy gold is mine: and thy wives and thy goodliest children are mine.4And the king of Israel answered: According to thy word, my lord, O king, I am thine, and all that I have.…
Cross References
1 Kings 20:2
And sending messengers to Achab, king of Israel, into the city,

1 Kings 20:4
And the king of Israel answered: According to thy word, my lord, O king, I am thine, and all that I have.

1 Kings 20:32
So they girded sackcloths on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said to him: Thy servant, Benadad, saith: I beseech thee let me have my life. And he said: If he be yet alive, he is my brother.

1 Kings 20:2
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