1 Kings 20:18
“And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them aliue: or whether they be come out for warre, take them aliue.”
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1 Kings 20:18 Context
16And they went out at noone: But Benhadad was drinking himselfe drunke in the pauilions, hee and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him. 17And the young men of the Princes of the Prouinces went out first, and Benhadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men come out of Samaria. 18And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them aliue: or whether they be come out for warre, take them aliue. 19So these yong men of the princes of the prouinces, came out of the citie, and the armie which followed them: 20And they slew euery one his man: and the Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them: and Benhadad the king of Syria escaped on an horse, with the horsemen.
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And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.
- King James Version
Then he said, "If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive."
- New American Standard Version (1995)