The king of Israel answered, “It is according to your saying, my lord, O king. I am yours, and all that I have.”
Parallel translations
- KJV And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king, according to thy saying, I am thine, and all that I have.
- BSB And the king of Israel replied, “Just as you say, my lord the king: I am yours, along with all that I have.”
- NKJV And the king of Israel answered and said, “My lord, O king, just as you say, I and all that I have are yours.”
- NASB And the king of Israel replied, “As you say, my lord, O king; I am yours, as well as all that I have.”
- NLT “All right, my lord the king,” Israel’s king replied. “All that I have is yours!”
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Quick answer
Ahab submissively agrees, conceding himself and all he has to Ben-Hadad. The king of Israel yields to the threat.
Overview
Ahab's surrender reveals his weakness and lack of trust in God when facing a superior force. His ready capitulation contrasts sharply with the deliverance God will soon provide unasked. The episode shows that God's purposes to save His people do not depend on the faith or worthiness of their leaders.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Judg 15:11–13Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in Etam’s rock, and said to Samson, “Don’t you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?” He said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.”
- 2 Kgs 18:14–16Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, “I have offended you. Return from me. That which you put on me, I will bear.” The king of Assyria appointed to Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
- Lev 26:36“‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.
- Deut 28:48therefore you will serve your enemies whom Yahweh sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck, until he has destroyed you.
- 1 Sam 13:6–7When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were distressed), then the people hid themselves in caves, in thickets, in rocks, in tombs, and in pits.
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