He said, “Whether they are coming out for peace, take them alive, or whether they are coming out for battle, take them alive.”
The young men of the rulers of the provinces marched out first. Ben-Hadad sent out scouts, who reported to him saying, “There are men coming out from Samaria.”
Now when the young men of the rulers of the provinces marched out of the city, with the army following them,
Before ruin a person’s heart is proud, but humility comes before honor.
But Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many fell wounded up to the entrance of the gate.
The Philistine said to David, “Come to me, so I may give your flesh to the birds of the sky and the beasts of the field.”