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1 Kings 20:4 KJV
1 Kings · chapter 20 · verse 4
And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king, according to thy saying, I am thine, and all that I have.1 Kings 20:4 · King James Version
1 Kings 20:4 in context
2And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and said unto him, Thus saith Benhadad,
3Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine.
4And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king, according to thy saying, I am thine, and all that I have.
5And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh Benhadad, saying, Although I have sent unto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children;
6Yet I will send my servants unto thee to morrow about this time, and they shall search thine house, and the houses of thy servants; and it shall be, that whatsoever is pleasant in thine eyes, they shall put it in their hand, and take it away.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- answeredʻânâhproperly, to eye or to heedH6030 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- sayingdâbâra wordH1697 →
- kingmeleka kingH4428 →
- saidʼâmarto sayH559 →
- lordʼâdôwnsovereignH113 →
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Here is, I. The threatening descent which Ben-hadad made upon Ahab's kingdom, and the siege he laid to Samaria, his royal city, Kg1 20:1. 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.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-11