1 Kings 20:27

And because of the word, Achaab was pierced with sorrow + 20:27 Gr. the face, as it were, of the Lord.before the Lord, and he both went weeping, and rent his garment, and girt sackcloth upon his body, and fasted; he put on sackcloth also in the day that he smote Nabuthai the Jezraelite, and went his way.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And the children of Israel were numbered, and were all present, and went against them: and the children of Israel pitched before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country.

In Context

26And he did very abominably in following after the abominations, according to all that the Amorite did, whom the Lord utterly destroyed from before the children of Israel.

28And the word of the Lord came by the hand of his servant Eliu concerning Achaab, and the Lord said,

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Cross References

Joshua 1:11Go into the midst of the camp of the people, and command the people, saying, Prepare provisions; for yet three days and ye + 1:11 Gr. do go over.shall go over this Jordan, entering in to take possession of the land, which the Lord God of your fathers gives to you.

Judges 7:8And they took the provision of the people in their hand, and their horns; and he sent away every man of Israel each to his tent, and he + 7:8 Or, encouraged.strengthened the three hundred; and the army of Madiam were beneath him in the valley.

1 Samuel 13:5And the Philistines gather together to war with Israel; and then come up against Israel thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand by the seashore for multitude: and they come up, and encamp in Machmas, opposite Bæthoron southward.

2 Kings 3:6And king Joram went forth in that day out of Samaria, and numbered Israel.

Ecclesiastes 9:11I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor yet bread to the wise, nor yet wealth to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of knowledge; for time and chance will happen to them all.

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 20:23-31

Ahab's Folly Reproved. ( b. c. 900.) 22 And the prophet came to the king of Israel, and said unto him, Go, strengthen thyself, and mark, and see what thou doest: for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against thee. 23 And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their gods are gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. 24 And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man out of his… Read the whole commentary →

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