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Updated Bible Version

1 Kings 20:3

Your silver and your gold is mine; your wives also and your sons, even the goodliest, are mine.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ambassadors;   Thompson Chain Reference - Benhadad;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Gold;   Samaria, Ancient;   Sieges;   Syria;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ben-Hadad;   Samaria;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ben-hadad;   Samaria, samaritans;   Syria;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Samaria;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ben-Hadad;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ben-Hadad;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Benhadad ;   Samaria ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Samaria;   Smith Bible Dictionary - A'hab;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Samaria, City of;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Benhadad;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Polygamy;   War;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
‘Your silver and your gold are mine! And your best wives and children are mine as well!’”
Hebrew Names Version
Your silver and your gold is mine; your wives also and your children, even the best, are mine.
King James Version
Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine.
English Standard Version
‘Your silver and your gold are mine; your best wives and children also are mine.'"
New Century Version
‘Your silver and gold belong to me, as well as the best of your wives and children.'"
New English Translation
He said to him, "This is what Ben Hadad says, ‘Your silver and your gold are mine, as well as the best of your wives and sons.'"
Amplified Bible
'Your silver and your gold are mine; your wives and your children, even the fairest, also are mine [as conditions of peace].'"
New American Standard Bible
'Your silver and your gold are mine; your most beautiful wives and children are also mine.'"
Geneva Bible (1587)
And sayd vnto him, Thus sayth Ben-hadad, Thy siluer & thy golde is mine: also thy women, and thy fayre children are mine.
Legacy Standard Bible
‘Your silver and your gold are mine; your most beautiful wives and children are also mine.'"
Contemporary English Version
"Ahab, give me your silver and gold, your wives, and your strongest sons!"
Complete Jewish Bible
to say to him, "Here is the message from Ben-Hadad: ‘Your silver and gold are mine, also your wives and your best children are mine.'"
Darby Translation
Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, the goodliest, are mine.
Easy-to-Read Version
The message was, "Ben-Hadad says, ‘Your silver and your gold are mine, and so are the best of your wives and children.'"
George Lamsa Translation
Your silver and your gold are mine; and the most attractive of your wives and your children are mine also.
Good News Translation
you surrender to him your silver and gold, your women and the strongest of your children."
Lexham English Bible
He said to him, "Thus says Ben-Hadad: ‘Your silver and your gold are mine, and your women and your best sons are mine.'"
Literal Translation
Your silver and your gold are mine, and your wives and your sons, the best, are mine.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thy syluer & thy golde is myne, and thy wyues & thy best children are myne also.
American Standard Version
Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine.
Bible in Basic English
And they said to him, Ben-hadad says, Your silver and your gold are mine; and your wives and children are mine.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thy siluer & thy gold is myne, & the fayrest of thy wiues & of thy childre be mine.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and said unto him: 'Thus saith Ben-hadad: Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine.'
King James Version (1611)
Thy siluer and thy gold is mine, thy wiues also, and thy children, euen the goodliest, are mine.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Nabuthai said to Achaab, My God forbid me that I should give thee the inheritance of my fathers.
English Revised Version
Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine.
Berean Standard Bible
saying, "This is what Ben-hadad says: 'Your silver and gold are mine, and your best wives and children are mine!'"
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and seide, Benadab seith these thingis, Thi siluer and thi gold is myn, and thi wyues, and thi beste sones ben myn.
Young's Literal Translation
and saith to him, `Thus said Ben-Hadad, `Thy silver and thy gold are mine, and thy wives and thy sons -- the best -- are mine.'
Webster's Bible Translation
Thy silver and thy gold [is] mine; thy wives also and thy children, [even] the most comely, [are] mine.
World English Bible
Your silver and your gold is mine; your wives also and your children, even the best, are mine.
New King James Version
"Your silver and your gold are mine; your loveliest wives and children are mine."'
New Living Translation
‘Your silver and gold are mine, and so are your wives and the best of your children!'"
New Life Bible
'Your silver and gold are mine. Your most beautiful wives and children are mine also.'"
New Revised Standard
Your silver and gold are mine; your fairest wives and children also are mine."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thy silver and thy gold, are, mine, and, thy wives and thy sons, the goodliest, are, mine.
Douay-Rheims Bible
He said: Thus saith Benadad: Thy silver and thy gold is mine: and thy wives and thy goodliest children are mine.
Revised Standard Version
'Your silver and your gold are mine; your fairest wives and children also are mine.'"
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Your silver and your gold are mine; your most beautiful wives and children are also mine.'"

Contextual Overview

1 And Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together; and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it. 2 And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel, into the city, and said to him, Thus says Ben-hadad, 3 Your silver and your gold is mine; your wives also and your sons, even the goodliest, are mine. 4 And the king of Israel answered and said, It is according to your saying, my lord, O king; I am yours, and all that I have. 5 And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaks Ben-hadad, saying, I indeed sent to you, saying, You shall deliver to me your silver, and your gold, and your wives, and your sons; 6 but I will send my slaves to you tomorrow about this time, and they shall search your house, and the houses of your slaves; and it shall be, that whatever is pleasant in your eyes, they shall put it in their hand, and take it away. 7 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Consider, I pray you, and see how this man seeks mischief: for he sent to me for my wives, and for my sons, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I didn't deny him. 8 And all the elders and all the people said to him, Don't listen, neither consent. 9 Therefore he said to the messengers of Ben-hadad, Tell my lord the king, All that you sent for to your slave at the first I will do; but this thing I will not do. And the messengers departed, and brought him word again. 10 And Ben-hadad sent to him, and said, The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 15:9, Isaiah 10:13, Isaiah 10:14

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 20:32 - Thy servant

Cross-References

Genesis 20:1
And Abraham journeyed from there toward the land of the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur. And he sojourned in Gerar.
Genesis 20:7
Now therefore restore the man's wife. For he is a prophet, and he shall pray for you, and you shall live. And if you don't restore her, know you that you shall surely die, you, and all that are yours.
Genesis 20:12
And moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife:
Genesis 20:13
and it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said to her, This is your kindness which you shall show to me. At every place where we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.
Genesis 20:14
And Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and male slaves and female slaves, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah his wife to him.
Genesis 20:15
And Abimelech said, Look, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you.
Genesis 28:12
And he dreamed. And look, a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And look, the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
Genesis 31:24
And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, You be careful not to speak to Jacob either good or bad.
Genesis 37:5
And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers: and they hated him all the more.
Genesis 37:9
And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, Look, I have dreamed yet a dream: and see, the sun and the moon and eleven stars made obeisance to me.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thy silver and thy gold is mine,.... Not of right, but reckoning it as good as in his hands, Ahab not being able to resist him:

and thy wives also; for it seems he had more than Jezebel:

and thy children; which were many, for he had no less than seventy sons, 2 Kings 10:1,

even the goodliest are mine: some aggravate this, as if his view was to commit the unnatural sin with his male children, when in his possession.


 
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