1 Kings 20:32

Modern English Version

So they girded sackcloth on their loins and put ropes on their heads and came to the king of Israel and said, “Your servant Ben-hadad says, ‘Please let me live.’ ” And he said, “Is he still alive? He is my brother!”

Cross References

1 Kings 20:31

His servants said to him, “Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Please let us put sackcloth on our loins and ropes on our heads and go out to the king of Israel. Perhaps he will spare your life.”

1 Kings 20:33

Now the men were diligently looking for a positive sign and quickly took hold of it, and they said, “Your brother Ben-hadad!” Then he said, “Go. You bring him.” Then Ben-hadad came to him and got into the chariot.

1 Kings 20:42

He said to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Because you have let go out of your hand a man whom I had appointed to utter destruction, you shall pay for his life with your life and his people with your people.’ ”

2 Kings 10:5

So he who was over the house, and he who was over the city, the elders, and the guardians sent word to Jehu, saying, “We are your servants, and everything you say to us we will do. We will not appoint a man king. Do what is good in your eyes.”

Isaiah 10:12

When the Lord has performed all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria and the glory of his high looks.”