1 Kings 20:1 BSB — MannaFest

1 Kings 20:1

Now Ben-hadad king of Aram assembled his entire army. Accompanied by thirty-two kings with their horses and chariots, he marched up, besieged Samaria, and waged war against it.

BSB

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ASV

And Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together; and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it.

KJV

And Ben–hadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and warred against it.

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Commentary

2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Ben-hadad, the king of Syria - Probably the son of the Ben-hadad who assisted Asa against Baasha (1Ki 15:18 note). Thirty and two kings with him - Not allies, but feudatories 1Ki 20:24. Damascus had in the reign of this Ben-hadad become the center of an important monarchy, which may not improbably have extended from the Euphrates to the northern border of Israel. The Assyrian inscriptions show that this country was about the period in question parcelled out into a multitude of petty kingdoms, the chief tribes who possessed it being the Hittites, the Hamathites, and the Syrians of Damascus.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

What the ground of the quarrel was we are not told; covetousness and ambition were the principle, which would never want some pretence or other. David in his time had quite subdued the Syrians and made them tributaries to Israel, but Israel's apostasy from God makes them formidable again.

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Original language & word study

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּבֶן־	u.ven-	and Ben	H1130 →
הֲדַ֣ד	ha.Dad	Hadad	H1130 →
מֶֽלֶךְ־	Me.lekh-	[the] king of	H4428 →
אֲרָ֗ם	'a.Ram	Aram	H758 →
קָבַץ֙	ka.Vatz	he gathered	H6908 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
חֵיל֔וֹ	chei.Lo	army his	H2428 →
וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֨ים	u.she.lo.Shim	and thirty	H7970 →
וּשְׁנַ֥יִם	u.she.Na.yim	and two	H8147 →
מֶ֛לֶךְ	Me.lekh	king[s]	H4428 →
אִתּ֖וֹ	'i.To	[were] with him	H854 →
וְס֣וּס	ve.Sus	and horse[s]	H5483 →
וָרָ֑כֶב	va.Ra.khev	and chariotry	H7393 →
וַיַּ֗עַל	vai.Ya.'al	and he went up	H5927 →
וַיָּ֙צַר֙	vai.Ya.tzar	and he laid siege	H6696 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
שֹׁ֣מְר֔וֹן	sho.me.Ron	Samaria	H8111 →
וַיִּלָּ֖חֶם	vai.yi.La.chem	and he fought	H3898 →
בָּֽהּ׃	Bah	against it

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Kings 22:31
Now the king of Aram had ordered his thirty-two chariot commanders, “Do not fight with anyone, small or great, except the king of Israel.”
leads to
- 1 Kings 20:24
  So do this: Dismiss all the kings from their positions and replace them with other officers.
- 2 Chronicles 18:30
  Now the king of Aram had ordered his chariot commanders, “Do not fight with anyone, small or great, except the king of Israel.”
Through
1 Kings 15:20
And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, conquering Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, and the whole land of Naphtali, including the region of Chinnereth.
leads to
- 2 Kings 15:29
  In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, including all the land of Naphtali, and he took the people…
- Judges 18:29
  They named it Dan, after their forefather Dan, who was born to Israel—though the city was formerly named Laish.
Through
1 Kings 15:18
So Asa withdrew all the silver and gold that remained in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace. He entrusted it to his servants and sent them with this…
leads to
- 1 Kings 14:26
  He seized the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the royal palace. He took everything, including all the gold shields that Solomon had made.
- 2 Kings 12:18
  So King Joash of Judah took all the sacred objects dedicated by his fathers—Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, the kings of Judah—along with his own consecrated items and all the gold found in the treasuries…
- 1 Kings 11:23–24
  And God raised up against Solomon another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master, Hadadezer king of Zobah,
Through
1 Kings 16:24
He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver and built a city there, calling it Samaria after the name of Shemer, who had owned the hill.
leads to
- 1 Kings 13:32
  for the message that he cried out by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria will surely…

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