1 Kings 20:21

Literal Standard Version

and the king of Israel goes out, and strikes the horses, and the charioteers, and has struck among the Arameans a great striking.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then the king of Israel marched out and attacked the cavalry and the chariots. He inflicted a severe slaughter on Aram.

Hebrew Names Version
The king of Yisra'el went out, and struck the horses and chariots, and killed the Aram with a great slaughter.

King James Version
And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.

English Standard Version
And the king of Israel went out and struck the horses and chariots, and struck the Syrians with a great blow.

New Century Version
Ahab king of Israel led the army and destroyed the Arameans' horses and chariots. King Ahab thoroughly defeated the Aramean army.

New English Translation
Then the king of Israel marched out and struck down the horses and chariots; he thoroughly defeated Syria.

Amplified Bible
The king of Israel went out and struck [the riders of] the horses and chariots, and killed the Arameans in a great slaughter.

New American Standard Bible
The king of Israel also went out and struck the horses and chariots, and killed the Arameans in a great slaughter.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the King of Israel went out, & smote the horses and charets, and with a great slaughter slew he the Aramites.

Legacy Standard Bible
And the king of Israel went out and struck down the horses and chariots, and struck the Arameans with a great slaughter.

Contemporary English Version
but Ahab and his soldiers followed them and captured their horses and chariots. Ahab and Israel's army crushed the Syrians.

Complete Jewish Bible
The king of Isra'el went out and attacked the horses and chariots, inflicting a massive defeat on Aram.

Darby Translation
And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.

Easy-to-Read Version
King Ahab led the army and attacked all the horses and chariots. So King Ahab made the Arameans suffer a great defeat.

George Lamsa Translation
And the king of Israel went out and destroyed the horses and chariots, and slew the Arameans with a great slaughter.

Good News Translation
King Ahab took to the field, captured the horses and chariots, and inflicted a severe defeat on the Syrians.

Lexham English Bible
The king of Israel went out and attacked the horses and the chariots and defeated Aram with a great blow.

Literal Translation
And the king of Israel went out and struck the horses, and the chariots, and struck the Syrians with a great blow.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the kynge of Israel wente forth, and smote horses and charettes, and dyd a greate slaughter on the Syrians.

American Standard Version
And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.

Bible in Basic English
And the king of Israel went out and took the horses and the war-carriages, and made great destruction among the Aramaeans.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and charettes, & with a great slaughter slue he the Syrians.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the Arameans with a great slaughter.

King James Version (1611)
And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and charets, and slewe the Syrians with a great slaughter.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
behold, I bring evil upon thee: and I will kindle a fire after thee, and I will utterly destroy every male of Achaab, and him that is shut up and him that is left in Israel.

English Revised Version
And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.

Berean Standard Bible
Then the king of Israel marched out and attacked the horses and chariots, inflicting a great slaughter on the Arameans.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also the king of Israel yede out, and smoot horsis and charis, and he smoot Sirie with a ful greet veniaunce.

Young's Literal Translation
and the king of Israel goeth out, and smiteth the horses, and the charioteers, and hath smitten among the Aramaeans a great smiting.

Update Bible Version
And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.

World English Bible
The king of Israel went out, and struck the horses and chariots, and killed the Syrians with a great slaughter.

New King James Version
Then the king of Israel went out and attacked the horses and chariots, and killed the Syrians with a great slaughter.

New Living Translation
However, the king of Israel destroyed the other horses and chariots and slaughtered the Arameans.

New Life Bible
The king of Israel went out and destroyed the horses and war-wagons. He killed many of the Syrians.

New Revised Standard
The king of Israel went out, attacked the horses and chariots, and defeated the Arameans with a great slaughter.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the king of Israel went forth, and took the horses and the chariots, - and he went on smiting the Syrians, with a great smiting.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the king of Israel going out overthrew the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.

Revised Standard Version
And the king of Israel went out, and captured the horses and chariots, and killed the Syrians with a great slaughter.

THE MESSAGE
The king of Israel cut down both horses and chariots—an enormous defeat for Aram.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The king of Israel went out and struck the horses and chariots, and killed the Arameans with a great slaughter.

Contextual Overview

¹²And it comes to pass at the hearing of this word—and he is drinking, he and the kings, in the shelters—that he says to his servants, "Set yourselves"; and they set themselves against the city. ¹³And behold, a certain prophet has come near to Ahab king of Israel and says, "Thus said YHWH: Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I am giving it into your hand today, and you have known that I [am] YHWH." ¹⁴And Ahab says, "By whom?" And he says, "Thus said YHWH: By the young men of the heads of the provinces"; and he says, "Who directs the battle?" And he says, "You." ¹⁵And he inspects the young men of the heads of the provinces, and they are two hundred and thirty-two, and after them he has mustered all the people, all the sons of Israel—seven thousand, ¹⁶and they go out at noon, and Ben-Hadad is drinking—drunk in the shelters, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings helping him. ¹⁷And the young men of the heads of the provinces go out at the first, and Ben-Hadad sends, and they declare to him, saying, "Men have come out of Samaria." ¹⁸And he says, "If they have come out for peace, catch them alive; and if they have come out for battle, catch them alive." ¹⁹And these have gone out of the city—the young men of the heads of the provinces—and the force that [is] after them, ²⁰and each strikes his man, and Aram flees, and Israel pursues them, and Ben-Hadad king of Aram escapes on a horse—and the horsemen; ²¹and the king of Israel goes out, and strikes the horses, and the charioteers, and has struck among the Arameans a great striking.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

went out: Judges 3:28, Judges 7:23-25, 1 Samuel 14:20-22, 1 Samuel 17:52, 2 Kings 3:18, 2 Kings 3:24

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the king of Israel went out,.... Of Samaria; when he saw the Syrians fleeing, and his army pursuing, he went forth, perhaps, with more forces, who were now willing to join with him; Josephus c says, Ahab had another army within the walls:

and smote the horses and chariots; that is, the men that rode on horses; and in chariots, the Syrian cavalry:

and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter; how many were slain is not said; but the Jewish historian d says they plundered the camp, in which were much riches, and great plenty of gold and silver, and took their chariots and horses, and returned to the city of Samaria.

c Antiqu. l. 8. c. 14. sect. 2. d Ibid.