1 Kings 20:3

3 ait haec dicit Benadad argentum tuum et aurum tuum meum est et uxores tuae et filii tui optimi mei sunt

1 Kings 20:3 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 20:3

Thy silver and thy gold is mine
Not of right, but reckoning it as good as in his hands, Ahab not being able to resist him:

and thy wives also;
for it seems he had more than Jezebel:

and thy children;
which were many, for he had no less than seventy sons, ( 2 Kings 10:1 ) ,

even the goodliest are mine:
some aggravate this, as if his view was to commit the unnatural sin with his male children, when in his possession.

1 Kings 20:3 In-Context

1 porro Benadad rex Syriae congregavit omnem exercitum suum et triginta et duos reges secum et equos et currus et ascendens pugnabat contra Samariam et obsidebat eam

2 mittensque nuntios ad Ahab regem Israhel in civitatem

3 ait haec dicit Benadad argentum tuum et aurum tuum meum est et uxores tuae et filii tui optimi mei sunt

4 responditque rex Israhel iuxta verbum tuum domine mi rex tuus sum ego et omnia mea

5 revertentesque nuntii dixerunt haec dicit Benadad qui misit nos ad te argentum tuum et aurum tuum et uxores tuas et filios tuos dabis mihi