1╦╔ 20:1 ┴ND ┬ENHADAD THE KING OF ╙YRIA GATHERED ALL HIS HOST TOGETHER: AND THERE WERE THIRTY AND TWO KINGS WITH HIM, AND HORSES, AND CHARIOTS; AND HE WENT UP AND BESIEGED ╙AMARIA, AND WARRED AGAINST IT.
1╦╔ 20:2 ┴ND HE SENT MESSENGERS TO ┴HAB KING OF ╔SRAEL INTO THE CITY, AND SAID UNTO HIM, ╘HUS SAITH ┬ENHADAD,
1╦╔ 20:3 ╘HY SILVER AND THY GOLD IS MINE; THY WIVES ALSO AND THY CHILDREN, EVEN THE GOODLIEST, ARE MINE.
1╦╔ 20:4 ┴ND THE KING OF ╔SRAEL ANSWERED AND SAID, ═Y LORD, ╧ KING, ACCORDING TO THY SAYING, ╔ AM THINE, AND ALL THAT ╔ HAVE.
1╦╔ 20:5 ┴ND THE MESSENGERS CAME AGAIN, AND SAID, ╘HUS SPEAKETH ┬ENHADAD, SAYING, ┴LTHOUGH ╔ HAVE SENT UNTO THEE, SAYING, ╘HOU SHALT DELIVER ME THY SILVER, AND THY GOLD, AND THY WIVES, AND THY CHILDREN;
1╦╔ 20:6 ┘ET ╔ WILL SEND MY SERVANTS UNTO THEE TO MORROW ABOUT THIS TIME, AND THEY SHALL SEARCH THINE HOUSE, AND THE HOUSES OF THY SERVANTS; AND IT SHALL BE, THAT WHATSOEVER IS PLEASANT IN THINE EYES, THEY SHALL PUT IT IN THEIR HAND, AND TAKE IT AWAY.
1╦╔ 20:7 ╘HEN THE KING OF ╔SRAEL CALLED ALL THE ELDERS OF THE LAND, AND SAID, ═ARK, ╔ PRAY YOU, AND SEE HOW THIS MAN SEEKETH MISCHIEF: FOR HE SENT UNTO ME FOR MY WIVES, AND FOR MY CHILDREN, AND FOR MY SILVER, AND FOR MY GOLD; AND ╔ DENIED HIM NOT.
1╦╔ 20:8 ┴ND ALL THE ELDERS AND ALL THE PEOPLE SAID UNTO HIM, ╚EARKEN NOT UNTO HIM, NOR CONSENT.
1╦╔ 20:9 ╫HEREFORE HE SAID UNTO THE MESSENGERS OF ┬ENHADAD, ╘ELL MY LORD THE KING, ┴LL THAT THOU DIDST SEND FOR TO THY SERVANT AT THE FIRST ╔ WILL DO: BUT THIS THING ╔ MAY NOT DO. ┴ND THE MESSENGERS DEPARTED, AND BROUGHT HIM WORD AGAIN.
1╦╔ 20:10 ┴ND ┬ENHADAD SENT UNTO HIM, AND SAID, ╘HE GODS DO SO UNTO ME, AND MORE ALSO, IF THE DUST OF ╙AMARIA SHALL SUFFICE FOR HANDFULS FOR ALL THE PEOPLE THAT FOLLOW ME.
1╦╔ 20:11 ┴ND THE KING OF ╔SRAEL ANSWERED AND SAID, ╘ELL HIM, ╠ET NOT HIM THAT GIRDETH ON HIS HARNESS BOAST HIMSELF AS HE THAT PUTTETH IT OFF.
1╦╔ 20:12 ┴ND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN ┬EN-HADAD HEARD THIS MESSAGE, AS HE WAS DRINKING, HE AND THE KINGS IN THE PAVILIONS, THAT HE SAID UNTO HIS SERVANTS, ╙ET YOURSELVES IN ARRAY. ┴ND THEY SET THEMSELVES IN ARRAY AGAINST THE CITY.
1╦╔ 20:13 ┴ND, BEHOLD, THERE CAME A PROPHET UNTO ┴HAB KING OF ╔SRAEL, SAYING, ╘HUS SAITH THE ╠╧╥─, ╚AST THOU SEEN ALL THIS GREAT MULTITUDE? BEHOLD, ╔ WILL DELIVER IT INTO THINE HAND THIS DAY; AND THOU SHALT KNOW THAT ╔ AM THE ╠╧╥─.
1╦╔ 20:14 ┴ND ┴HAB SAID, ┬Y WHOM? ┴ND HE SAID, ╘HUS SAITH THE ╠╧╥─, ┼VEN BY THE YOUNG MEN OF THE PRINCES OF THE PROVINCES. ╘HEN HE SAID, ╫HO SHALL ORDER THE BATTLE? ┴ND HE ANSWERED, ╘HOU.
1╦╔ 20:15 ╘HEN HE NUMBERED THE YOUNG MEN OF THE PRINCES OF THE PROVINCES, AND THEY WERE TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY TWO: AND AFTER THEM HE NUMBERED ALL THE PEOPLE, EVEN ALL THE CHILDREN OF ╔SRAEL, BEING SEVEN THOUSAND.
1╦╔ 20:16 ┴ND THEY WENT OUT AT NOON. ┬UT ┬ENHADAD WAS DRINKING HIMSELF DRUNK IN THE PAVILIONS, HE AND THE KINGS, THE THIRTY AND TWO KINGS THAT HELPED HIM.
1╦╔ 20:17 ┴ND THE YOUNG MEN OF THE PRINCES OF THE PROVINCES WENT OUT FIRST; AND ┬ENHADAD SENT OUT, AND THEY TOLD HIM, SAYING, ╘HERE ARE MEN COME OUT OF ╙AMARIA.
1╦╔ 20:18 ┴ND HE SAID, ╫HETHER THEY BE COME OUT FOR PEACE, TAKE THEM ALIVE; OR WHETHER THEY BE COME OUT FOR WAR, TAKE THEM ALIVE.
1╦╔ 20:19 ╙O THESE YOUNG MEN OF THE PRINCES OF THE PROVINCES CAME OUT OF THE CITY, AND THE ARMY WHICH FOLLOWED THEM.
1╦╔ 20:20 ┴ND THEY SLEW EVERY ONE HIS MAN: AND THE ╙YRIANS FLED; AND ╔SRAEL PURSUED THEM: AND ┬ENHADAD THE KING OF ╙YRIA ESCAPED ON AN HORSE WITH THE HORSEMEN.
1╦╔ 20:21 ┴ND THE KING OF ╔SRAEL WENT OUT, AND SMOTE THE HORSES AND CHARIOTS, AND SLEW THE ╙YRIANS WITH A GREAT SLAUGHTER.
1╦╔ 20:22 ┴ND THE PROPHET CAME TO THE KING OF ╔SRAEL, AND SAID UNTO HIM, ╟O, STRENGTHEN THYSELF, AND MARK, AND SEE WHAT THOU DOEST: FOR AT THE RETURN OF THE YEAR THE KING OF ╙YRIA WILL COME UP AGAINST THEE.
1╦╔ 20:23 ┴ND THE SERVANTS OF THE KING OF ╙YRIA SAID UNTO HIM, ╘HEIR GODS ARE GODS OF THE HILLS; THEREFORE THEY WERE STRONGER THAN WE; BUT LET US FIGHT AGAINST THEM IN THE PLAIN, AND SURELY WE SHALL BE STRONGER THAN THEY.
1╦╔ 20:24 ┴ND DO THIS THING, ╘AKE THE KINGS AWAY, EVERY MAN OUT OF HIS PLACE, AND PUT CAPTAINS IN THEIR ROOMS:
1╦╔ 20:25 ┴ND NUMBER THEE AN ARMY, LIKE THE ARMY THAT THOU HAST LOST, HORSE FOR HORSE, AND CHARIOT FOR CHARIOT: AND WE WILL FIGHT AGAINST THEM IN THE PLAIN, AND SURELY WE SHALL BE STRONGER THAN THEY. ┴ND HE HEARKENED UNTO THEIR VOICE, AND DID SO.
1╦╔ 20:26 ┴ND IT CAME TO PASS AT THE RETURN OF THE YEAR, THAT ┬ENHADAD NUMBERED THE ╙YRIANS, AND WENT UP TO ┴PHEK, TO FIGHT AGAINST ╔SRAEL.
1╦╔ 20:27 ┴ND THE CHILDREN OF ╔SRAEL WERE NUMBERED, AND WERE ALL PRESENT, AND WENT AGAINST THEM: AND THE CHILDREN OF ╔SRAEL PITCHED BEFORE THEM LIKE TWO LITTLE FLOCKS OF KIDS; BUT THE ╙YRIANS FILLED THE COUNTRY.
1╦╔ 20:28 ┴ND THERE CAME A MAN OF ╟OD, AND SPAKE UNTO THE KING OF ╔SRAEL, AND SAID, ╘HUS SAITH THE ╠╧╥─, ┬ECAUSE THE ╙YRIANS HAVE SAID, ╘HE ╠╧╥─ IS ╟OD OF THE HILLS, BUT HE IS NOT ╟OD OF THE VALLEYS, THEREFORE WILL ╔ DELIVER ALL THIS GREAT MULTITUDE INTO THINE HAND, AND YE SHALL KNOW THAT ╔ AM THE ╠╧╥─.
1╦╔ 20:29 ┴ND THEY PITCHED ONE OVER AGAINST THE OTHER SEVEN DAYS. ┴ND SO IT WAS, THAT IN THE SEVENTH DAY THE BATTLE WAS JOINED: AND THE CHILDREN OF ╔SRAEL SLEW OF THE ╙YRIANS AN HUNDRED THOUSAND FOOTMEN IN ONE DAY.
1╦╔ 20:30 ┬UT THE REST FLED TO ┴PHEK, INTO THE CITY; AND THERE A WALL FELL UPON TWENTY AND SEVEN THOUSAND OF THE MEN THAT WERE LEFT. ┴ND ┬ENHADAD FLED, AND CAME INTO THE CITY, INTO AN INNER CHAMBER.
1╦╔ 20:31 ┴ND HIS SERVANTS SAID UNTO HIM, ┬EHOLD NOW, WE HAVE HEARD THAT THE KINGS OF THE HOUSE OF ╔SRAEL ARE MERCIFUL KINGS: LET US, ╔ PRAY THEE, PUT SACKCLOTH ON OUR LOINS, AND ROPES UPON OUR HEADS, AND GO OUT TO THE KING OF ╔SRAEL: PERADVENTURE HE WILL SAVE THY LIFE.
1╦╔ 20:32 ╙O THEY GIRDED SACKCLOTH ON THEIR LOINS, AND PUT ROPES ON THEIR HEADS, AND CAME TO THE KING OF ╔SRAEL, AND SAID, ╘HY SERVANT ┬ENHADAD SAITH, ╔ PRAY THEE, LET ME LIVE. ┴ND HE SAID, ╔S HE YET ALIVE? HE IS MY BROTHER.
1╦╔ 20:33 ╬OW THE MEN DID DILIGENTLY OBSERVE WHETHER ANY THING WOULD COME FROM HIM, AND DID HASTILY CATCH IT: AND THEY SAID, ╘HY BROTHER ┬ENHADAD. ╘HEN HE SAID, ╟O YE, BRING HIM. ╘HEN ┬ENHADAD CAME FORTH TO HIM; AND HE CAUSED HIM TO COME UP INTO THE CHARIOT.
1╦╔ 20:34 ┴ND ┬EN-HADAD SAID UNTO HIM, ╘HE CITIES, WHICH MY FATHER TOOK FROM THY FATHER, ╔ WILL RESTORE; AND THOU SHALT MAKE STREETS FOR THEE IN ─AMASCUS, AS MY FATHER MADE IN ╙AMARIA. ╘HEN SAID ┴HAB, ╔ WILL SEND THEE AWAY WITH THIS COVENANT. ╙O HE MADE A COVENANT WITH HIM, AND SENT HIM AWAY.
1╦╔ 20:35 ┴ND A CERTAIN MAN OF THE SONS OF THE PROPHETS SAID UNTO HIS NEIGHBOUR IN THE WORD OF THE ╠╧╥─, ╙MITE ME, ╔ PRAY THEE. ┴ND THE MAN REFUSED TO SMITE HIM.
1╦╔ 20:36 ╘HEN SAID HE UNTO HIM, ┬ECAUSE THOU HAST NOT OBEYED THE VOICE OF THE ╠╧╥─, BEHOLD, AS SOON AS THOU ART DEPARTED FROM ME, A LION SHALL SLAY THEE. ┴ND AS SOON AS HE WAS DEPARTED FROM HIM, A LION FOUND HIM, AND SLEW HIM.
1╦╔ 20:37 ╘HEN HE FOUND ANOTHER MAN, AND SAID, ╙MITE ME, ╔ PRAY THEE. ┴ND THE MAN SMOTE HIM, SO THAT IN SMITING HE WOUNDED HIM.
1╦╔ 20:38 ╙O THE PROPHET DEPARTED, AND WAITED FOR THE KING BY THE WAY, AND DISGUISED HIMSELF WITH ASHES UPON HIS FACE.
1╦╔ 20:39 ┴ND AS THE KING PASSED BY, HE CRIED UNTO THE KING: AND HE SAID, ╘HY SERVANT WENT OUT INTO THE MIDST OF THE BATTLE; AND, BEHOLD, A MAN TURNED ASIDE, AND BROUGHT A MAN UNTO ME, AND SAID, ╦EEP THIS MAN: IF BY ANY MEANS HE BE MISSING, THEN SHALL THY LIFE BE FOR HIS LIFE, OR ELSE THOU SHALT PAY A TALENT OF SILVER.
1╦╔ 20:40 ┴ND AS THY SERVANT WAS BUSY HERE AND THERE, HE WAS GONE. ┴ND THE KING OF ╔SRAEL SAID UNTO HIM, ╙O SHALL THY JUDGMENT BE; THYSELF HAST DECIDED IT.
1╦╔ 20:41 ┴ND HE HASTED, AND TOOK THE ASHES AWAY FROM HIS FACE; AND THE KING OF ╔SRAEL DISCERNED HIM THAT HE WAS OF THE PROPHETS.
1╦╔ 20:42 ┴ND HE SAID UNTO HIM, ╘HUS SAITH THE ╠╧╥─, ┬ECAUSE THOU HAST LET GO OUT OF THY HAND A MAN WHOM ╔ APPOINTED TO UTTER DESTRUCTION, THEREFORE THY LIFE SHALL GO FOR HIS LIFE, AND THY PEOPLE FOR HIS PEOPLE.
1╦╔ 20:43 ┴ND THE KING OF ╔SRAEL WENT TO HIS HOUSE HEAVY AND DISPLEASED, AND CAME TO ╙AMARIA.
