1 Raja-raja 20:31

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Lalu berkatalah pegawai-pegawainya kepadanya: "Ketahuilah, kami telah mendengar, bahwa raja-raja kaum Israel itu adalah raja-raja pemurah. Marilah kita menaruh kain kabung pada pinggang kita dan tali pada kepala kita, dan dengan demikian keluar menghadap raja Israel; barangkali ia akan menyelamatkan nyawamu."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lalu berkatalah pegawai-pegawainya kepadanya: "Ketahuilah, kami telah mendengar, bahwa raja-raja kaum Israel itu adalah raja-raja pemurah. Marilah kita menaruh kain kabung pada pinggang kita dan tali pada kepala kita, dan dengan demikian keluar menghadap raja Israel; barangkali ia akan menyelamatkan nyawamu."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka pada masa itu sembah segala hambanya kepadanya: Bahwasanya patik sekalian ini telah mendengar kabar akan pekerti segala raja bangsa Israel itu raja yang murah hatinya, maka sebab itu baiklah patik berpakaikan kain karung pada pinggang patik dan kenakan tali pada kepala patik, lalu berilah patik sekalian ini keluar pergi mendapatkan baginda raja orang Israel; mudah-mudahan dihidupinya nyawa tuanku kelak.

Contextual Overview

³¹ And his seruauntes said vnto him: Behold, we haue heard say that the kinges of the house of Israel are mercyfull kinges: We will therfore put sackcloth about our loynes, and ropes about our heades, and go out to the king of Israel, if happyly he will saue thy lyfe. ³² And so they girded sackcloth about their loynes, & put ropes about their heades, and came to the king of Israel, and said: Thy seruaunt Benhadad sayth, I pray thee let me lyue. He sayde: Is he yet alyue? he is my brother. ³³ And ye men toke that word for good lucke and hastyly caught it out of his mouth, and sayd: Yea thy brother Benhadad. He sayde: Go, bring him hyther. And Benhadad came out vnto him, and he caused him to come vp into the charet. ³⁴ And he said vnto him: The cities which my father toke from thy father, I will restore agayne, and thou shalt make streates for thee in Damasco, as my father dyd in Samaria: And I wil make an appoyntment with thee, & send the away. And so he made an appoyntment with him, and sent him away. ³⁵ And there was a certayne man of the children of the prophetes, whiche sayde vnto his neyghbour in the word of the Lord: Smyte me I pray thee. And the man woulde not smyte him. ³⁶ Then sayd he vnto him: Because thou hast not hearkened vnto the voyce of the Lorde: beholde, assoone as thou art departed fro me, a lion shal slay thee. And it came to passe, that assoone as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slue him. ³⁷ Then he founde another man, & sayde: Smyte me I pray thee. And the man smote him, so that in smyting he wounded him. ³⁸ So the prophete went foorth, & wayted for the king by the way, and put him selfe out of knowledge with ashes whiche he layed vpon his face. ³⁹ And when the king came by, he cryed vnto the king, and sayde: Thy seruaunt wet out in the middes of the battel, and behold there went away a man, whom another man brought vnto me, & sayde, Kepe this man: and if he be myssed or lost, thy lyfe shall go for his, or els thou shalt pay a talent of siluer. ⁴⁰ And as thy seruaunt had here & there to do, he was gone. And the king of Israel sayde vnto him: Euen so shall thy iudgement be, as thou hast defined it thy selfe.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

his servants: 1 Kings 20:23, 2 Kings 5:13

merciful kings: Proverbs 20:28, Isaiah 16:5, Ephesians 1:7, Ephesians 1:8

I pray thee: Six of the citizens of Calais are reported to have acted nearly in the same manner, when they surrendered their city to Edward the Third, king of England, in 1346. See the whole story circumstantially related by Sir John Froissart - who lived in that time with that simplicity and detail that give it every appearance of truth.

put sackcloth: 1 Kings 21:27-29, Genesis 37:34, 2 Samuel 3:31, 2 Samuel 14:2, 2 Kings 19:1, 2 Kings 19:2, Esther 4:1-3, Isaiah 22:12, Isaiah 37:1, Jonah 3:5, Jonah 3:6, Revelation 11:3

peradventure: 2 Kings 7:4, Esther 4:16, Job 2:4, Matthew 10:28

Reciprocal: Genesis 32:20 - peradventure Joshua 9:4 - work wilily Esther 7:3 - let my life Job 41:4 - Will he Amos 5:15 - it may Luke 14:32 - and desireth Luke 15:18 - will arise

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And his servants said unto him,.... Being reduced to the utmost extremity; for if he attempted to go out of the city, he would fall into the hands of the Israelites, and there was no safety in it, the wall of it being fallen down; and it could not be thought he could be concealed long in the chamber where he was, wherefore his servants advised as follows:

behold, now, we have heard that the kings of the Israel are merciful kings; not only the best of them as David and Solomon, but even the worst of them, in comparison of Heathen princes, were kind and humane to those that fell into their hands, and became their captives:

let us, I pray thee; so said one in the name of the rest:

put sack cloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads; and so coming in such a mean and humble manner, and not with their armour on, they might the rather hope to have admittance; so, the Syracusans sent ambassadors to Athens, in filthy garments, with the hair of their heads and beards long, and all in slovenly habits, to move their pity r;

and go out to the king of Israel: and be humble supplicants to him:

peradventure he will save thy life; upon a petition to him from him; to which the king agreed, and sent it by them.

r Justin e Trogo, l. 4. c. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And ropes upon our heads - “Ropes about our necks” is probably meant. They, as it were, put their lives at Ahab’s disposal, who, if he pleased, might hang them at once.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 31. Put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads — Let us show ourselves humbled in the deepest manner, and let us put ropes about our necks, and go submitting to his mercy, and deprecating his wrath. The citizens of Calais are reported to have acted nearly in the same way when they surrendered their city to Edward III., king of England, in 1346. See at the end. 1 Kings 20:43.