1 Kings 20:16-18

New International Version - UK

¹⁶ They set out at noon while Ben-Hadad and the 32 kings allied with him were in their tents getting drunk. ¹⁷ The junior officers under the provincial commanders went out first.

Now Ben-Hadad had dispatched scouts, who reported, ‘Men are advancing 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.’