1 Kings 20:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ And he said, Whether they have come out for peace or for war, take them alive.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ And he said, Whether they are come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they are come out for war, take them alive.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ He said, “If they have come out in peace, take them alive; if they have come out for war, take them alive as well.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ And he said: "If they have arrived for peace, apprehend them alive; if to do battle, capture them alive."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ And he said: Whether they come for peace, take them alive: or whether they come to fight, take them alive.

1 Kings 20:18 Cross References

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 20:19

But these had already come out of the city: the young men who served the district governors and the army that followed them.

Proverbs 18:12

Before destruction one’s heart is haughty, but humility goes before honor.

Judges 9:40

Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him. Many fell wounded, up to the entrance of the gate.

1 Samuel 17:44

The Philistine said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and to the wild animals of the field.”