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1 Kings 20:32-34
New Catholic Bible
1 Kings 20:32-34
New Catholic Bible
32 So they put sackcloth around their waists and they put ropes around their heads and they went out to the king of Israel and said, “Ben-hadad said, ‘Please let me live.’ ” He answered, “Is he still alive? He is my brother.”[a]
33 The men were listening carefully and they quickly took up his refrain, “Ben-hadad is your brother!” He said, “Go and bring him here.” When Ben-hadad came out to him, he had him join him in the chariot.
34 Ben-hadad said to him, “I will give back the cities that my father took from your father. You can set up marketplaces in Damascus just like my father did in Samaria.” He answered, “I will release you on the basis of this covenant.” So he made a covenant with him and released him.
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- 1 Kings 20:32 The reputation of the Hebrew kings for mercy is immediately confirmed by what happens. Sackcloth (Hebrew, sak, a bristly cloth) the same as “the cilice,” from Latin, cilicium, a name given by the Romans. The word was derived from Cilicia, in Asia Minor, the best known of the places where the cloth was made.
