1 Kings 20:17 - New Revised Standard Version The young men who serve the district governors went out first. Ben-hadad had sent out scouts, and they reported to him, “Men have come out from Samaria.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben-hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men come out of Samaria. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The servants of the governors of the districts went out first; and Ben-hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men come out of Samaria. American Standard Version (1901) And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben-hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men come out from Samaria. Common English Bible The servants of the district officials were at the head of the march. Ben-hadad sent for information and was told, “Some men have marched out of Samaria.” Catholic Public Domain Version Then the servants of the leaders of the provinces went out to the first place, at the front. And so, Benhadad sent, and they reported to him, saying: "Men have gone out from Samaria." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the servants of the princes of the provinces went out first. And Benadad sent. And they told him, saying: There are men come out of Samaria. |
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,
They went out at noon, while Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the booths, he and the thirty-two kings allied with him.
He said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive; if they have come out for war, take them alive.”
But these had already come out of the city: the young men who serve the district governors, and the army that followed them.