1 Kings 20:7

Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Mark, I 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 I denied him not.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
king	מֶֽלֶךְ Me.lekh-	H4428	a king · noun, common masculine singular construct
Israel	יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ Yis.ra.'El	H3478	Jisrael · proper noun, a place name
called	וַיִּקְרָ֤א vai.yik.Ra'	H7121	to call out to (i.e. properly · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
elders	זִקְנֵ֣י zik.Nei	H2205	old · adjective, masculine plural construct
land	הָאָ֔רֶץ ha.'A.retz	H776	the earth (at large · definite article + noun, common feminine singular absolute
said	וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ vai.Yo.mer	H559	to say (used with great latitude) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
Mark	דְּעֽוּ de.'u-	H3045	to know (properly · verb, qal imperative, 2nd person masculine plural
see	וּרְא֔וּ u.re.'U	H7200	to see · conjunction + verb, qal imperative, 2nd person masculine plural
seeketh	מְבַקֵּ֑שׁ me.va.Kesh	H1245	to search out (by any method · verb, piel active participle, masculine singular absolute
mischief	רָעָ֖ה ra.'Ah	H7451	bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral) · noun, common feminine singular absolute
sent	שָׁלַ֨ח sha.Lach	H7971	to send away · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
wives	לְנָשַׁ֤י le.na.Shai	H802	a woman · preposition + noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix
children	וּלְבָנַי֙ u.le.va.Nai	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · conjunction + preposition + noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix
silver	וּלְכַסְפִּ֣י u.le.khas.Pi	H3701	silver (from its pale color) · conjunction + preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix
gold	וְלִזְהָבִ֔י ve.liz.ha.Vi	H2091	gold · conjunction + preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix
denied	מָנַ֖עְתִּי ma.Na'.ti	H4513	to debar (negatively or positively) from benefit or inj… · verb, qal perfect, 1st person common singular

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

2 Kings 5:7 And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, t…
1 Kings 8:1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king…
1 Chronicles 13:1 And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and with every leader.
1 Chronicles 28:1 And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies that ministered to the king by c…
Job 15:35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
Psalms 7:14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
Psalms 36:4 He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.
Psalms 62:3 How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.

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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…
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…
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 20:7

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 20:7

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 20:7

Keil & Delitzsch on 1 Kings 20:1-22

Tyndale Open Study Notes on 1 Kings 20:7-9

Rashi on 1 Kings 20:6