He said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive; if they have come out for war, take them alive.”
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.”
But these had already come out of the city: the young men who served the district governors and the army that followed them.
Before destruction one’s heart is haughty, but humility goes before honor.
Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him. Many fell wounded, up to the entrance of the gate.
The Philistine said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and to the wild animals of the field.”