1 Kings 20:1

Modern English Version

Now Ben-hadad the king of Aram gathered his army together. Thirty-two kings were with him, with horses and chariots, and he went up and besieged Samaria and fought against it.

Cross References

1 Kings 15:18

Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the Lord, as well as the treasures of the king’s house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants, and he sent them to Ben-hadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Aram, who lived at Damascus, saying,

1 Kings 15:20

So Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel and conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel of Beth-maacah, and all Kinnereth, along with all the land of Naphtali.

1 Kings 16:24

He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver. He fortified the hill and named the city he built after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, calling it “Samaria.”

1 Kings 20:16

They went out at noon. But Ben-hadad and the thirty-two kings who helped him were getting drunk in the pavilions.

1 Kings 20:2

He sent messengers into the city to Ahab king of Israel and said to him, “Thus says Ben-hadad:

1 Kings 20:24

Do this: Dismiss the kings, each from his position, and put commanders in their places,

1 Kings 22:31

But the king of Aram ordered his thirty-two commanders who had control over his chariots, saying, “Fight neither against small, nor great, but only against the king of Israel.”

2 Kings 6:8

Then the king of Aram was fighting against Israel, and he took counsel with his servants, saying, “At such and such a place will be my camp.”

2 Kings 8:5

As he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, behold, the woman whose son he had restored to life started appealing to the king for her house and her land. Gehazi said, “My lord king, this is the woman, and this is her son whom Elisha restored to life.”

Ezra 7:12

“Artaxerxes, king of kings, “To Ezra the priest, scribe of the law of the God of heaven: “Perfect peace, and so forth.

Exodus 14:7

And he took six hundred select chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and officers over every one of them.

Isaiah 10:8

For he says, “Are not my princes altogether kings?

Isaiah 37:24

Through your servants you have reproached the Lord and have said, ‘With my many chariots I have come up to the heights of the mountains, to the remotest parts of Lebanon; and I cut down its tall cedars, and its choice fir trees; and I will go to its highest peak, its thickest forest.

Jeremiah 49:27

I will kindle a fire to the wall of Damascus, and it will consume the palaces of Ben-hadad.

Ezekiel 26:7

For thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will bring upon Tyre Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses and with chariots, and with horsemen, and a great army.

Daniel 2:37

You, O king, are the king of kings. For the God of heaven has given you a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.

Leviticus 26:25

I will bring a sword upon you that shall extract vengeance for My covenant. And when you are gathered together within your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

Amos 1:4

So I will send fire against the house of Hazael, and it will devour the fortresses of Ben-hadad.

Deuteronomy 20:1

When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses, and chariots, and a people that outnumber you, do not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 28:52

He will lay siege on you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout all your land, and he will lay siege on you in all your towns throughout all your land which the Lord your God has given you.

Judges 1:7

Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings whose thumbs and big toes were cut off once collected scraps of food under my table. Just as I have done, so God has repaid me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

Judges 4:3

The Israelites cried out to the Lord, for Sisera had nine hundred iron chariots and had forcefully oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.

1 Samuel 13:5

The Philistines gathered together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen, with people like the sand which is on the seashore in multitude. And they came up and camped in Mikmash, east of Beth-aven.