1 Kings 20:6

Yet I 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.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
send	אֶשְׁלַ֤ח 'esh.Lach	H7971	to send away · verb, qal imperfect, 1st person common singular
servants	עֲבָדַי֙ 'a.va.Dai	H5650	a servant · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix
morrow	מָחָ֗ר ma.Char	H4279	properly · noun, common masculine singular absolute
time	כָּעֵ֣ת ka.'Et	H6256	time · preposition with the article + noun, common both genders singular absolute
search	וְחִפְּשׂוּ֙ ve.chi.pe.Su	H2664	to seek · conjunction + verb, piel sequential perfect, 3rd person common plural
house	בֵּ֣יתְךָ֔ bei.te.kha	H1004	a house (in the greatest variation of applications · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
houses	בָּתֵּ֣י ba.Tei	H1004	a house (in the greatest variation of applications · noun, common masculine plural construct
servants	עֲבָדֶ֑יךָ 'a.va.Dei.kha	H5650	a servant · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
be	וְהָיָה֙ ve.ha.Yah	H1961	to exist · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
pleasant	מַחְמַ֣ד mach.Mad	H4261	delightful · noun, common masculine singular construct
eyes	עֵינֶ֔יךָ 'ei.Nei.kha	H5869	an eye (literally or figuratively) · noun, common feminine dual construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
put	יָשִׂ֥ימוּ ya.Si.mu	H7760	to put (used in a great variety of applications · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
hand	בְיָדָ֖ם ve.ya.Dam	H3027	a hand (the open one (indicating power · preposition + noun, common both genders singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
away	וְלָקָֽחוּ ve.la.Ka.chu	H3947	to take (in the widest variety of applications) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 3rd person common plural

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Genesis 27:15 And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son:
1 Samuel 13:19-21 Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:
2 Samuel 24:14 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall i…
2 Kings 18:31-32 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye eve…
Ezra 8:27 Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.
Isaiah 44:9 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they s…
Jeremiah 25:34 Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispe…
Lamentations 1:7 Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her peo…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 20:1-11

Here is, I. The threatening descent which Ben-hadad made upon Ahab's kingdom, and the siege he laid to Samaria, his royal city, Kg1 20:1. What the ground of the quarrel was we are not told; covetousness and ambition were the principle, which would never want some pretence or other. David in his time had quite subdued the Syrians and made them tributaries to Israel, but Israel's apostasy from God makes them formidable again. Asa had tempted the Syrians to invade Israel once (Kg1 15:18-20), and now they did it of their own accord. It is dangerous bringing a foreign force into the country: posterity may pay dearly for it. Ben-hadad had with him thirty-two kings, who were either tributaries to h…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Kings 20:2

Thus said Ben-hadad, Thy silver and thy gold is mine--To this message sent him during the siege, Ahab returned a tame and submissive answer, probably thinking it meant no more than an exaction of tribute. But the demand was repeated with greater insolence; and yet, from the abject character of Ahab, there is reason to believe he would have yielded to this arrogant claim also, had not the voice of his subjects been raised against it. Ben-hadad's object in these and other boastful menaces was to intimidate Ahab. But the weak sovereign began to show a little more spirit, as appears in his abandoning "my lord the king" for the single "tell him," and giving him a dry but sarcastic hint to glory n…

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Adam Clarke on 1 Kings 20:6

Whatsoever is pleasant in thine eyes - It is not easy to discern in what this second requisition differed from the first; for surely his silver, gold, wives, and children, were among his most pleasant or desirable things. Jarchi supposes that it was the book of the law of the Lord which Ben-hadad meant, and of which he intended to deprive Israel. It is however evident that Ben-hadad meant to sack the whole city, and after having taken the royal treasures and the wives and children of the king, to deliver up the whole to be pillaged by his soldiers.

Dictionary and topics

Ahab — Father’s brother. (1.) The son of Omri, whom he succeeded as the seventh king of Israel. His history is recorded in 1 Kings 16-22. His wife was Jezebel (q.v.), who exercised a very evil influence…
Ambassador — In the Old Testament the Hebrew word tsir, meaning “one who goes on an errand,” is rendered thus (Josh. 9:4; Prov. 13:17; Isa. 18:2; Jer. 49:14; Obad. 1:1). This is also the rendering of melits,…
Samaria — A watch-mountain or a watch-tower. In the heart of the mountains of Israel, a few miles north-west of Shechem, stands the “hill of Shomeron,” a solitary mountain, a great “mamelon.” It is an oblong…
Ambassadors · Benhadad to Ahab — Benhadad to Ahab
Samaria, Ancient · Samaria the capital of: Besieged by Benhadad — Samaria the capital of: Besieged by Benhadad
Syria · Benhadad king of, besieged Samaria — Benhadad king of, besieged Samaria

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

1 Kings 20:6

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 20:1-11

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Kings 20:2

Adam Clarke on 1 Kings 20:6

Dictionary and topics

1 Kings 20:6

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 20:1-11

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Kings 20:2

Adam Clarke on 1 Kings 20:6

Dictionary and topics

John Gill on 1 Kings 20:6

Keil & Delitzsch on 1 Kings 20:1-22

Tyndale Open Study Notes on 1 Kings 20:2-4

Rashi on 1 Kings 20:6