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He said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive.”

1 Kings 20:18 · WEB

This verse in other languages

ગુજરાતી1 રાજાઓ ૨૦:૧૮
બેન-હદાદે કહ્યું, “તેઓ સલાહને માટે આવ્યા હોય કે યુદ્ધ કરવા આવ્યા હોય તોપણ તેઓને જીવતા પકડી લો.”
हिन्दी1 राजाओं २०:१८
उसने कहा, “चाहे वे मेल करने को निकले हों, चाहे लड़ने को, तो भी उन्हें जीवित ही पकड़ लाओ।”

In context

16They went out at noon. But Ben Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings who helped him.

17The young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben Hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, “Men are coming out from Samaria.”

18He said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive.”

19So these went out of the city, the young men of the princes of the provinces, and the army which followed them.

20They each killed his man. The Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them. Ben Hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with horsemen.

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