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1 Kings 20:7-9
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1 Kings 20:7-9
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7 Then Ahab summoned his advisors. “Look what this man is doing,” he complained to them. “He is stirring up trouble despite the fact that I have already told him he could have my wives and children and silver and gold, just as he demanded.”
8 “Don’t give him anything more,” the elders advised.
9 So he told the messengers from Ben-hadad, “Tell my lord the king, ‘I will give you everything you asked for the first time, but your men may not search the palace and the homes of the people.’”[a] So the messengers returned to Ben-hadad.
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- 1 Kings 20:9 your men may not search the palace and the homes of the people, literally, “this thing I cannot do.”
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