1 Kings 20:17

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The young men who served the district governors went out first. Ben-hadad had sent out scouts, and they reported to him, “Men have come out from Samaria.”

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 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 20:18

He said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive; if they have come out for war, take them alive.”

1 Kings 20:19

But these had already come out of the city: the young men who served the district governors and the army that followed them.