1 Kings 20:8-10

International Standard Version

⁸ “Don’t listen to him,” all the elders and the people replied. “And don’t agree to his terms.”^[a]

⁹ So he told Ben-hadad’s envoys, “Tell his majesty the king, ‘Everything that you asked for the first time I will do, but this thing I cannot do.’” So the envoys left to deliver Ahab’s response. They^[b] returned a little while later.

¹⁰ Beh-hadad sent this message back: “May the gods do so to me, and more than that also, if the dust that remains of Samaria is enough to fill up a few handfuls for all of the armies at my disposal.”