18He said, |If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive.|


In Context

15 Then he mustered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty-two. After them, he mustered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.

16 They 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.

17 The 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.|

18 He said, |If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive.|

19 So these went out of the city, the young men of the princes of the provinces, and the army which followed them.

20 They each killed his man. The Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them. Ben Hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with horsemen.

1 Kings 20:18 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

20:18He said, "If they have come out for peace, take them alive; if they have come out for war, take them alive."

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:18And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:18And he said: Whether they come for peace, take them alive: or whether they come to fight, take them alive.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:18And he said, Whether they are come out for peace, take them alive, or whether they are come out for war, taken them alive.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:18And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:18And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:18And he said, Whether they have come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they have come out for war, take them alive.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:18And he saith, 'If for peace they have come out — catch them alive; and if for battle they have come out — alive catch them.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:18And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.