And the king of Israel replied, “Just as you say, my lord the king: I am yours, along with all that I have.”
Parallel translations
- WEB The king of Israel answered, “It is according to your saying, my lord, O king. I am yours, and all that I have.”
- 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.
- ESV And the king of Israel answered, “As you say, my lord, O king, I am yours, and 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 15:11–13In response, three thousand men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, “Do you not realize that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?” “I have done to them what they did to me,” he replied.
- 2 Kgs 18:14–16So Hezekiah king of Judah sent word to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong; withdraw from me, and I will pay whatever you demand from me.” And the king of Assyria exacted from Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
- Lev 26:36As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.
- Deut 28:48you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
- 1 Sam 13:6–7Seeing that they were in danger because their troops were hard-pressed, the men of Israel hid in caves and thickets, among the rocks, and in cellars and cisterns.
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