1 Kings 20:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

King Ben-hadad of Aram gathered all his army together; thirty-two kings were with him, along with horses and chariots. He marched against Samaria, laid siege to it, and attacked 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 and the treasures of the king’s house and gave them into the hands of his servants. King Asa sent them to King Ben-hadad son of Tabrimmon son of Hezion of Aram, who resided in Damascus, saying,

1 Kings 15:20

Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel. He conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, and all Chinneroth, 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 called the city that he built Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.

1 Kings 20:16

They went out at noon, while Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the booths, he and the thirty-two kings allied with him.

1 Kings 20:2

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

1 Kings 20:24

Also do this: remove the kings, each from his post, and put commanders in place of them;

1 Kings 22:31

Now the king of Aram had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, “Fight with no one small or great but only with the king of Israel.”

2 Kings 6:8

Once when the king of Aram was at war with Israel, he took counsel with his officers. He said, “At such and such a place shall be my camp.”

2 Kings 8:5

While he was telling the king how Elisha had restored a dead person to life, the woman whose son he had restored to life appealed to the king for her house and her land. Gehazi said, “My lord king, here is the woman, and here is her son whom Elisha restored to life.”

Ezra 7:12

“Artaxerxes, king of kings, to the priest Ezra, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven: Peace. And now

Exodus 14:7

he took six hundred elite chariots and all the other chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them.

Isaiah 10:8

For he says: “Are not my commanders all kings?

Isaiah 37:24

By your servants you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, ‘With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon; I felled its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses; I came to its remotest height, its densest forest.

Jeremiah 49:27

And I will kindle a fire at the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad.

Ezekiel 26:7

For thus says the Lord God: I will bring against Tyre from the north King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, king of kings, together with horses, chariots, cavalry, and a great and powerful army.

Daniel 2:37

You, O king, the king of kings—to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, the might, and the glory,

Leviticus 26:25

I will bring the sword against you, executing vengeance for the covenant, and if you withdraw into your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into enemy hands.

Amos 1:4

So I will send a fire on the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad.

Deuteronomy 20:1

“When you go out to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots, an army larger than your own, do not fear them, for the Lord your God is with you, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 28:52

It shall besiege you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout your land; it shall besiege you in all your towns throughout the land that the Lord your God has given you.

Judges 1:7

Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table; as I have done, so God has paid me back.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

Judges 4:3

Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord for help, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron and had oppressed the Israelites cruelly twenty years.

1 Samuel 13:5

The Philistines mustered to fight with Israel: thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and troops like the sand on the seashore in multitude; they came up and encamped at Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven.