1 Kings 20:17-19

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¹⁷ The young men who served the district governors went out first. Ben-hadad had sent out scouts,^[a] and they reported to him, “Men have come out from Samaria.” ¹⁸ He said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive; if they have come out for war, take them alive.”^(A)

¹⁹ But these had already come out of the city: the young men who served the district governors and the army that followed them.