16 They went out at noon, while (A)Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the [a]temporary shelters [b]with the thirty-two kings who helped him. 17 The young men of the rulers of the provinces went out first; and Ben-hadad sent out and they told him, saying, “Men have come out from Samaria.” 18 (B)Then he said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 20:16 Or booths
  2. 1 Kings 20:16 Lit he and the 32 kings