1 Kings 20:1

New American Bible - revised edition

Ben-hadad, king of Aram, gathered all his forces and, accompanied by thirty-two kings with horses and chariotry, set out to besiege and attack Samaria.

Cross References

1 Kings 15:18

Asa then took all the silver and gold remaining in the treasuries of the house of the Lord and the house of the king. Entrusting them to his ministers, King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad, son of Tabrimmon, son of Hezion, king of Aram, who ruled in Damascus. He said:

1 Kings 15:20

Ben-hadad agreed with King Asa and sent the leaders of his troops against the cities of Israel. They attacked Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, and all Chinnereth, besides all the land of Naphtali.

1 Kings 16:24

He then bought the mountain of Samaria from Shemer for two silver talents and built upon the mountain the city he named Samaria, after Shemer, the former owner.

1 Kings 20:16

They marched out at noon, while Ben-hadad was drinking heavily in the pavilions with the thirty-two kings who were his allies.

1 Kings 20:2

He sent messengers to Ahab, king of Israel, within the city,

1 Kings 20:24

This is what you must do: Take the kings from their posts and put prefects in their places.

1 Kings 22:31

In the meantime the king of Aram had given his thirty-two chariot commanders the order, “Do not fight with anyone, great or small, except the king of Israel alone.”

2 Kings 6:8

When the king of Aram was waging war on Israel, he would make plans with his servants: “I will bivouac at such and such a place.”

2 Kings 8:5

Just as he was telling the king how his master had restored a dead person to life, the very woman whose son Elisha had restored to life came to the king appealing for her house and field. Gehazi said, “My lord king, this is the woman, and this is that son of hers 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, greetings! And now,

Exodus 14:7

He took six hundred select chariots and all the chariots of Egypt, with officers on all of them.

Isaiah 10:8

For he says, “Are not my commanders all kings?”

Isaiah 37:24

Through the mouths of your messengers you have insulted the Lord when you said: ‘With my many chariots I went up to the tops of the peaks, to the recesses of Lebanon, To cut down its lofty cedars, its choice cypresses; I reached the farthest shelter, the forest ranges.

Jeremiah 49:27

I will set fire to the wall of Damascus; it shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad. Against Arabia.

Ezekiel 26:7

Indeed thus says the Lord God: I am bringing up against Tyre from the north, Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, with cavalry, and a mighty horde of troops.

Daniel 2:37

You, O king, are the king of kings; to you the God of heaven has given dominion and strength, power and glory;

Leviticus 26:25

I will bring against you the sword, the avenger of my covenant. Though you then huddle together in your cities, I will send pestilence among you, till you are delivered to the enemy.

Amos 1:4

I will send fire upon the house of Hazael, and it will devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad.

Deuteronomy 20:1

When you go out to war against your enemies and you see horses and chariots and an army greater than your own, you shall not be afraid of them, for the Lord, your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt, will be with you.

Deuteronomy 28:52

They will besiege you in each of your communities, until the great, fortified walls, in which you trust, come tumbling down all over your land. They will besiege you in every community throughout the land which the Lord, your God, has given you,

Judges 1:7

“Seventy kings,” said Adonibezek, “used to pick up scraps under my table with their thumbs and big toes cut off. As I have done, so has God repaid me.” He was brought to Jerusalem, and he died there.

Judges 4:3

But the Israelites cried out to the Lord; for with his nine hundred iron chariots Jabin harshly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.

1 Samuel 13:5

The Philistines also assembled for battle against Israel, with thirty thousand chariots, six thousand horsemen, and foot soldiers as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They came up and encamped in Michmash, east of Beth-aven.