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and said to him, "Thus says Ben-Hadad: Your silver and your gold are mine, and your wives and your sons, and the best of them are mine."
And the messenger came back and said, "Thus says Ben-Hadad: I have indeed sent to you, saying, 'You shall give me your silver and your gold, your wives and your sons,'
So he [Ahab] said to Ben-Hadad's messengers, "Tell my lord the king, 'Everything you first sent your messengers for, I will do, but this I will not do. '" And the messengers departed and took these words back to him [Ben-Hadad].
And Ben-Hadad sent word to him [Ahab replied], saying, "May the gods do so to me and more, if the dust of Samaria is not enough for a handful for all the people who follow me."
And they went out at noon. But Ben-Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the tents, he and the kings, 32 kings who helped him.
And the young men of the princes went out first, and Ben-Hadad sent out and they told him, saying, "Men are coming out of Samaria."
And they each struck their man, and the Arameans fled, and Israel pursued them, and Ben-Hadad, king of Aram, fled on a horse with horsemen.
And it came to pass, when the year was come round again (a year had passed), that Ben-Hadad mustered the Arameans and went up to Aphek to fight against Israel.
But the rest fled to Aphek into the city, and the wall fell on 27,000 men who were left. And Ben-Hadad fled and entered the city into an inner room.
And they put sackcloth on their hips and ropes on their heads and came to the king of Israel and said, "Your servant Ben-Hadad says, 'I beg you, let me live.'" And he said, "Is he alive? He is my brother."
And the men took it as a sign and hurried to take it from him, and they said, "Your brother Ben-Hadad." And he said, "Go and bring him." And Ben-Hadad came to him, and he made him get into his chariot.
After this, Ben-Hadad, king of Aram, gathered his entire army and went up to besiege Samaria.
[Elijah had been commissioned to anoint Hazael as king, see . He reigned at the same time as Elijah's successor, Elisha. Hazael reigned from 842 to 805 BC.]
And Elisha came to Damascus, and Ben-Hadad, king of Aram [Syria], was sick, and they told him, saying, "The man of God has come here."
So Hazael went and met him, and took a gift in his hand of all the good things of Damascus—40 loaded camels—and came and stood before him and said, "Your son Ben-Hadad, king of Aram, has sent me to you, saying, 'Shall I recover from this sickness?
And the anger of the Lord (Yahweh) was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael, king of Aram, and into the hand of Ben-Hadad, son of Hazael, all their days.
And Hazael, king of Aram, died, and Ben-Hadad, his son, reigned in his place.
And Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz, took back from Ben-Hadad, the son of Hazael, the cities that he had taken from Jehoahaz, his father, by war. Three times he struck him and restored the cities of Israel.
And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus
and it shall devour the palaces of Ben-Hadad.
I will send a fire upon the house of Hazael
and it shall devour the palaces of Ben-Hadad.
[Hazael was the royal family of Syria (Aram) founded by Hazael (842-796 BC), see . Ben-Hadad was Hazael's successor or his son of the same name.]
