1 Kings 20:10
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Then Ben-Hadad sent another message to Ahab: “May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if enough dust remains in Samaria to give each of my men a handful.”
Read 1 Kings 20:10 Using Other Translations
And Benhadad sent unto him, and said, The gods do so unto me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.
Ben-hadad sent to him and said, "The gods do so to me and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people who follow me."
Then Ben-hadad sent this message to Ahab: “May the gods strike me and even kill me if there remains enough dust from Samaria to provide even a handful for each of my soldiers.”
What does 1 Kings 20:10 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
1 Kings 20:10
And Benhadad sent unto him, and said
That is, to Ahab:
the gods do so unto me, and more also;
bring greater evils upon me than I can think or express:
if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all
the people
that follow me,
signifying that he made no doubt of it of reducing it to dust by
numbers of men he should bring with him, which would be so many,
that if each was to take an handful of dust of the ruins of
Samaria, there would not enough for them all; which was an
hectoring and parabolical speech, uttered in his wrath and fury.
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