So with sackcloth around their waists and ropes around their heads, they went to the king of Israel and said, “Your servant Ben-hadad says, ‘Please spare my life.’” And the king answered, “Is he still alive? He is my brother.”
saying, “This is what Ben-hadad says: ‘Your silver and gold are mine, and your best wives and children are mine!’”
He leads counselors away barefoot and makes fools of judges.
The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say
He captured Agag king of Amalek alive, but devoted all the others to destruction with the sword.
Unleash the fury of your wrath; look on every proud man and bring him low.
But when his heart became arrogant and his spirit was hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne, and his
The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
Then the servants of Ben-hadad said to him, “Look now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful.
And the prophet said to the king, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because you have let slip from your hand the man I had d
So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of As