⁹ So he said to the messengers of Ben-Hadad, “Say to my lord the king, ‘All that you demanded from your servant at the first, I will do, but this thing I am not able to do.’” Then the messengers went and made a report to him.^{[a] 10} Then Ben-Hadad sent to him and said, “Thus may the gods do to me and thus may they add if the dust of Samaria is sufficient for the hollow of a hand for all of the people who are at my feet.” ¹¹ The king of Israel answered and said, “Tell him, ‘Let not him who girds on his armor boast as one who takes off his armor.’”