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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

列王纪上 22:31

亞蘭王曾經囑咐他的三十二個戰車長說:“無論大小將兵,你們都不要與他們爭戰,只要與以色列王爭戰。”

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Archery;   Chariot;   Prophecy;   Ramoth-Gilead;   Thompson Chain Reference - Jehoshaphat;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Armies of Israel, the;   Syria;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ben-Hadad;   Jehoshaphat;   Micaiah;   Ramoth;   Zedekiah;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ahab;   Chariot;   Jehoshaphat;   Micah;   Ramoth-gilead;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Jehoshaphat;   Ramoth-Gilead;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ahab;   King, Kingship;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Ramoth-Gilead;   Transportation and Travel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ahab;   Ben-Hadad;   Jehoshaphat;   Lie, Lying;   Micah, Micaiah;   Ramoth-Gilead, Ramoth in Gilead;   War;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Ramothgilead;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Judah the kingdom of;   Ramoth;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mica'iah;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Armies;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Army;   Benhadad;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
先 是 亚 兰 王 吩 咐 他 的 三 十 二 个 车 兵 长 说 : 他 们 的 兵 将 , 无 论 大 小 , 你 们 都 不 可 与 他 们 争 战 , 只 要 与 以 色 列 王 争 战 。

Contextual Overview

29 So Ahab king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went to Ramoth in Gilead. 30 King Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, "I will go into battle, but I will wear other clothes so no one will recognize me. But you wear your royal clothes." So Ahab wore other clothes and went into battle. 31 The king of Aram had ordered his thirty-two chariot commanders, "Don't fight with anyone—important or unimportant—except the king of Israel." 32 When these commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they thought he was certainly the king of Israel, so they turned to attack him. But Jehoshaphat began shouting. 33 When they saw he was not King Ahab, they stopped chasing him. 34 By chance, a soldier shot an arrow, but he hit Ahab king of Israel between the pieces of his armor. King Ahab said to his chariot driver, "Turn around and get me out of the battle, because I am hurt!" 35 The battle continued all day. King Ahab was held up in his chariot and faced the Arameans. His blood flowed down to the bottom of the chariot. That evening he died. 36 Near sunset a cry went out through the army of Israel: "Each man go back to his own city and land." 37 In that way King Ahab died. His body was carried to Samaria and buried there. 38 The men cleaned Ahab's chariot at a pool in Samaria where prostitutes bathed, and the dogs licked his blood from the chariot. These things happened as the Lord had said they would.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thirty and two: 1 Kings 20:24, 2 Chronicles 18:30

Fight: 1 Kings 20:33-42

small nor great: Genesis 19:11, 1 Samuel 30:2, Jeremiah 16:6

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 17:2 - I will smite 2 Samuel 18:3 - if we flee 1 Kings 20:34 - So he made a covenant 1 Kings 20:42 - Because 1 Kings 22:33 - that they turned 1 Kings 22:36 - there went 2 Kings 6:8 - the king 2 Kings 6:24 - gathered

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But the king of Syria commanded his thirty and two captains that had the rule over his chariots,.... This was the number of his kings in the first battle with Israel, and of his captains in the second, 1 Kings 20:1, and the same number he had now, being very probably not only the number of his chariots, but the division of his army was into so many battalions, under the command of these captains of chariots:

saying, fight neither with small nor great; of those that belonged to Jehoshaphat:

save only with the king of Israel; and his men; for it can hardly be thought that his orders were to fight with none, nor kill any in the battle but Ahab personally; though it is very probable he might give them directions to aim at him chiefly, knowing that, if he was killed or taken, his army would flee or surrender; and he might be desirous of getting him into his hands, as he had been in his; and the rather his spite was against him, as he was the mover of the war.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Commanded - “Had commanded.” Ben-hadad delivers his order in the hyperbolical style common in the East. His meaning is, “Make it your chief object to kill or take the king of Israel.” Apparently, his own defeat and captivity were still rankling in his mind, and he wished to retaliate on Ahab, the humiliation which he considered himself to have suffered. He shows small appreciation of the generosity which had spared his life and restored him to his kingdom.


 
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