1 Kings 20:3 BSB — MannaFest

1 Kings 20:3

saying, “This is what Ben-hadad says: ‘Your silver and gold are mine, and your best wives and children are mine!’”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine.

KJV

Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine.

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Thy silver and thy gold is mine,.... Not of right, but reckoning it as good as in his hands, Ahab not being able to resist him: and thy wives also; for it seems he had more than Jezebel: and thy children; which were many, for he had no less than seventy sons, 2Ki 10:1, even the goodliest are mine: some aggravate this, as if his view was to commit the unnatural sin with his male children, when in his possession.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

"All shall be mine, without exception." 2. Ahab's poor spirit sends Ben-hadad a very disgraceful submission. It is general indeed (he cannot mention particulars in his surrender with so much pleasure as Ben-hadad did in his demand), but it is effectual: I am thine, and all that I have,

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Ben-hadad's object in these and other boastful menaces was to intimidate Ahab. But the weak sovereign began to show a little more spirit, as appears in his abandoning "my lord the king" for the single "tell him," and giving him a dry but sarcastic hint to glory no more till the victory is won.

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כַּסְפְּךָ֥	kas.pe.Kha	silver your	H3701 →
וּֽזְהָבְךָ֖	u.ze.ha.ve.Kha	and gold your	H2091 →
לִֽי־	li-	[belongs] to me
ה֑וּא	Hu'	it	H1931 →
וְנָשֶׁ֧יךָ	ve.na.Shei.kha	and wives your	H802 →
וּבָנֶ֛יךָ	u.va.Nei.kha	and children your	H1121 →
הַטּוֹבִ֖ים	ha.to.Vim	<the> good	H2896 →
לִי־	li-	[belong] to me
הֵֽם׃	Hem	they	H1992 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H2091uzehavekhaand gold your389×

The walk

The walk5

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
Exodus 15:9
The enemy declared, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.’
leads to
- Judges 5:30
  ‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoil—a girl or two for each warrior, a plunder of dyed garments for Sisera, the spoil of embroidered garments for the neck of the looter?’
- Exodus 14:5
  When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have released Israel from serving us.”
- Isaiah 53:12
  Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the…
- Luke 11:22
  But when someone stronger attacks and overpowers him, he takes away the armor in which the man trusted, and then he divides up his plunder.
- Isaiah 36:20
  Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”

About 1 Kings

The Israelites Slaughter the Syrians — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About 1 Kings

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About 1 Kings