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1 Kings 20:5-7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
1 Kings 20:5-7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 The messengers came again and said, “Thus says Ben-hadad: I sent to you, saying, ‘Deliver to me your silver and gold, your wives and children’; 6 now I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, and they shall search your house and the houses of your servants and lay hands on whatever pleases them[a] and take it away.”
7 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land and said, “Look now! See how this man is seeking trouble, for he sent to me for my wives, my children, my silver, and my gold, and I did not refuse him.”(A)
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- 20.6 Gk Syr Vg: Heb you
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