1 Kings 20:18
He said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive.”
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In context
Before · 1 Kings 20:16–17
16They went out at noon. But Ben Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings who helped him. 17The young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben Hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, “Men are coming out from Samaria.”
18He said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive.”