I’ll dig wells and drink foreign water. I’ll dry up all the streams of Egypt with the trampling of my feet.”
The king thought, “Look how great Babylon is! I built the royal palace by my own impressive power and for my glorious honor.”
The canals will stink. Egypt’s streams will be emptied and dried up. The reeds and cattails will wither.
Then Benhadad sent Ahab the following message: “May the gods strike me dead if there will be enough dust left from Samaria to give a handful to each soldier who follows me.”
If he retreats into a city, all Israel will bring ropes to that city and drag it into a valley so that not even a pebble will be found there.”
“The enemy said, ‘I’ll pursue them! I’ll catch up with them! I’ll divide the loot! I’ll take all I want! I’ll use my sword! I’ll take all they have!’
So the Philistines filled in all the wells that his father’s servants had dug during his father Abraham’s lifetime.