1 Kings 20:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ They went out at noon, while Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the booths, he and the thirty-two kings allied with him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ And they went out at noon. But Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ And they went out at noon. But Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the booths, he and the thirty-two kings who helped him.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And they went out at noon. But Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ At noon they marched for battle. Meanwhile, Ben-hadad and the thirty-two kings allied with him were getting drunk in their tents.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And they went out at midday. But Benhadad was drinking; he was inebriated in his pavilion, and the thirty-two kings with him, who had arrived in order to assist him.

1 Kings 20:16 Cross References

Hosea 4:11

prostitution. Wine and new wine take away the understanding.

Isaiah 54:15

If anyone stirs up strife, it is not from me; whoever stirs up strife with you shall fall because of you.

1 Kings 16:9

But his servant Zimri, commander of half his chariots, conspired against him. When he was at Tirzah drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was in charge of the palace at Tirzah,

1 Kings 16:7

Moreover, the word of the Lord came by the prophet Jehu son of Hanani against Baasha and his house, both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and also because he destroyed it.

1 Kings 20:15

Then he mustered the young men who served the district governors, two hundred thirty-two; after them he mustered all the people of Israel, seven thousand.

1 Kings 20:17

The young men who served the district governors went out first. Ben-hadad had sent out scouts, and they reported to him, “Men have come out from Samaria.”

1 Kings 22:31

Now the king of Aram had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, “Fight with no one small or great but only with the king of Israel.”

Proverbs 20:1

Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.

Amos 6:7

Therefore they shall now be the first to go into exile, and the revelry of the loungers shall pass away.

Isaiah 5:22

Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and valiant at mixing drink,